101 Quotes by Shaun Ryder

I think I'm a really good dad.

Maybe 20 years ago I was all right looking, but certainly not now. I've lost it.

I don't really regret anything about my youth.

Believe it or not, me and Bez choose the reality TV we do wisely.

I've never cared about being indie or cool. I wanted to be on 'Top of the Pops.'

When he was young and because he was off his nut, Bez would spit when he talked.

The rest of the band tend to notice things like the door getting opened for the lead singer. And the door shuts on the rest of the band. The lead singer doesn't notice that, but the rest of the band does.

When we came along in 1982, music was getting boring - like 1976 when punk hadn't happened. We wanted to be rock 'n' roll. We grew up with The Velvet Underground, the Stones and Mars bars and Marianne Faithfull and we knew we didn't want to be boring - and we weren't!

I never thought I'd die young. Even at the worst moments, I've always thought I was gonna live till I was about 127.