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

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.

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.

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

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

His grace lifts us in spite of us...it moves our lives forward on the conveyor belt of promise, even as we cling to our nagging doubts and unbelief.

Self-love is so monogamous that no one is going to take the trouble to break the affair up for you.

You will never know God's strength until He has supported you in deep waters.

Imagine how you’d feel if your whole life turned into a job you couldn’t stand.

I feel like my sixteenth birthday and the time I graduated from high school, and the first time I flew solo all wrapped up in one.

Elphaba looked like something between an animal and an Animal, like something more than life but not quite Life.

You think you know me just because you know my name, think you've seen me 'cause you've seen every line on my face.

It's like, once you've seen Tom Hanks win the Golden Globes, the Oscars, you've seen his wife, what kind of car he drives, when you watch his movies, you can't fully get really lost in them.

Everything is going to work out-there's no other option.

I know a lot of actors who started out as musicians and have very successful careers as actors, but most people don't know them as musicians.