If you live in Birmingham, then being awake is not necessarily a desirable state.

There is no celebrity quite as powerful as the local, homegrown celebrity.

I’ll just say one word: Icarus. If you get it, great. If you don’t, that’s fine too. But you should probably read more.

When forced to pick between truth and legend, print the legend.

Every band needs it's own special chemistry. And Bez was a very good chemist.

Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it's nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as religion.

That came from my mother. She was the biggest influence on my life. I remember once refusing to get on a bus with her because she was wearing a mink, and I thought we should be taking a taxi. She just said, 'Who cares what people think?' and I remember sitting on that bus, being utterly embarrassed, but knowing somehow that she was totally correct.

I've been a minor celebrity since I was 23 years old.