A biography for Shaun Ryderhasn’t been written yet.
“My job is to go out partying and entertaining and it's all in an excitable environment. Doing that after night - it gets boring, you know what I mean?”
“My dad loves it - being onstage - but I don't.”
“The Mondays were important because nobody sounded like us.”
“I have discovered vegan ice-cream; that's replaced the whisky.”
“The only thing I took to Glastonbury in 1990 was a ton of tin foil!”
“Men don't have to grow up like women do. Women are expected to grow up with every year that passes. Men can get away with being kids until they're at least 40 - I did.”
“There were some great tunes played between '67 and '73. The Beatles were everywhere in those days, the most famous people in the world. You couldn't avoid them if you wanted. Not that I did.”
“My brain gets about 10 things going on at once and the wires don't connect. They all go, 'It's the drugs,' and it's not. I have been like this all my life.”
“Believe it or not, me and Bez choose the reality TV we do wisely.”
“The problem stems from the ADHD. The nutty behavior. You have got all this energy going and you can't focus on anything. It's like games at school - like football. I couldn't play because I couldn't understand the rules. I couldn't get offside. I just couldn't take in the rules.”
“My mum and dad only had me and my brother.”
“I've enjoyed all my times, teens, twenties, thirties, forties, and now I'm enjoying my fifties.”
“I got tired of soundchecks. At first it was important. But after a while, there was no point in me doing one.”
“I didn't learn the alphabet until I was 28 and could only learn that when someone told me to sing it.”
“Kids now, they're not willing to pay for music and movies. The only thing they seem to be willing to pay for is concert tickets.”
“I've had a few alien encounters.”
“I was in the dentist's chair for 11 hours and now I've got a set of gleaming teeth.”
“I don't know why we said half the stuff that we did to journalists. It was almost as if we didn't think they were going to print it.”
“My melons are twisted every bleeding morning at about half past five when I'm up with the little ones!”