Where they come from matters. They're products of particular places and environments.
I'm a minor player in my own life story.
This is Manchester, we do things differently here
Most of all, I love Manchester. The crumbling warehouses, the railway arches, the cheap abundant drugs. That's what did it in the end. Not the money, not the music, not even the guns. That is my heroic flaw: my excess of civic pride.
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.
I could have been a Judge, but I never had the Latin for the judgin'. I never had it, so I'd had it, as far as being a judge was concerned. . . I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal.
I'm looking to be the next comedy mogul.
I set our house on fire when I was a little child playing with lighters. Boy, did I burn the place down!
Pity is an emotion that can get you killed. The only thing more dangerous is blind hate, and maybe love.