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On the student riots: "I loved it, man. I'm into the violent side of it. I thought it made for fucking great TV. I still think they should get a fucking job, though. But I'm into people getting wound up about things. It's better than being fucking dead, innit?" (NME, December 2010).
On the Scissor Sisters: "Bright colours and fucking weirdos on stilts? I'm more entertaining than that shit." (NME, 2005).
On his emotions: “I suppose I do get sad, but not for too long. I just look in the mirror and go, ‘What a good-looking fuck you are.’” (NME, November 2006).
On Franz Ferdinand: "You look at [Alex Kapranos] and the singer from Right Said Fred. It's the same person! he's just gone on the Atkins diet and grown his hair." (NME, 2005).
On Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong: "Fuck right off. I'm not having him. I just don't like his head." (NME. August 2009).
On Coldplay: "Chris Martin looks like a geography teacher. What's all that with writing messages about Free Trade? If he wants to write things down I'll give him a pen and a pad of paper. Bunch of students." (NME, 2006).
On Pete Doherty and Tom Chaplin: “Posh boys can't take drugs, man, they're lightweights. They have one little line, and they're in rehab". (The Observer, November 2006).
On conquering America: “Americans want grungy people stabbing themselves in the head onstage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don’t get it.” (NME, November 2006).
On what the public thinks of him: “Loudmouth blagging gobshite from Manchester…and they’d be totally correct.” (The Times, August 2008).
On Keith Richards and George Harrison: “They're jealous and senile and not getting enough fucking meat pies.” (The Sun, October 1997).
On Victoria Beckham’s literary aspirations: “She can't even chew gum and walk in a straight line, let alone write a book.” (NME, September 2001).
On being soft at heart: “I am a tender, beautiful and loving guy that happens to slap a photographer now and then because they get in my way.” (Sky.com, July 2005).
On Coldplay and Radiohead: “I don't hate them, I don't wish they had accidents. I think their fans are boring and ugly and don't look like they're having a good time.” (The Guardian, August 2008).
On the Beatles Vs God: “It's got to be being in the Beatles. When
was the last time God made a decent record?” (Rolling Stone, October
2008).
