I Did Drugs For 18 Years And

I Don't Fall Into The Category Of Tortured Artist. But It's Not Made Me More Or Less Anything.

I'm Not Sure About This Live 8 Thing. Correct Me If I Am Wrong, But Are They Hoping That One Of These Guys From The G8 Is On A Quick 15-minute Break At Gleneagles And Sees Annie Lennox Singing "sweet Dreams" And Thinks: "f... Me, She Might Have A Point There, You Know." It's Not Going To F... Happen, Is It? Keane Doing "somewhere Only We Know" And Some Japanese Businessman Going: "aw, Look At Him...we Should Really F... Drop That Debt, You Know." It's Not Going To Happen, Is It?

Even In The Nineties, When It Was Mad And There Were Photographers All Around The House, It Never Occurred To Me To Send Someone Else Out To Get Cigarettes. It Took Me Five Minutes - Went For A Walk, Gave A Wave, Went Back Inside.

Anything That's Of Any Use, Famous People Get Hold Of It And Take It For Themselves And It Gets A Bad Rap.

I Remember The 70s Constantly Being Winter In Manchester And The Irish Community In Manchester Closing Ranks Because Of The Ira Bombings In Birmingham And Manchester, And You Know The Bin-workers' Strike, All Wrapped Up In It... They Were Violent Times. Violence At Home And Violence At Football Matches.