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

This is Manchester, we do things differently here.

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.

Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.

Nothing useless can be truly beautiful.

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

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

I'm a minor player in my own life story.

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

I am not a piece of hash. I'm in charge of Factory Records. I think.

[I]f God as a subject is the determined, while the quality, the predicate, is determining, then in truth the rank of the godhead is due not to the subject, but to the predicate.

War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.

Since I was relatively new to the Bible, I was surprised by the Old Testament God. He's wrathful, but at other times, He's incredibly compassionate. He's not a one-dimensional figure at all.

Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.

When somebody you've known for 20 years, and with whom you have a full context, winks at you or whatever, it can be huge. I think in a sense what you're trying to re-create in fiction is that.

I always feel happy when I'm making smart decisions with food - instead of focusing on what I shouldn't eat, I focus on what I should eat. It's all about being happy and feeling good!

That takes a lot of confidence to let your actors come up with something that could be theoretically funnier than what you had envisioned originally.

I'm just being myself. I'm not a very complex guy; I'm not a very studious, crazy intellectual guy. I'm just a guy.

I like photographs of anything uninteresting. Maybe just two doors on a wall... The point is to be uninteresting.

You truly do reap what you sow, so that makes it so important for us to learn to love each other in the here and now.