Mark E. Smith

The manners thing's got worse. People think they can just text you if they've got bad news for you. It's not on. And as for people taking pictures at gigs on their phones, that's just weird.

The only good Philip K. Dick film is 'Total Recall.' It's faithful to the book. Arnie gets it.

They're weird aren't they, Prince fans?

Prince's manager once told me that I was the only person other than Prince who can recruit from the streets. Which was very flattering.

I do feel like an outsider, but I don't lose any sleep over it.

My earliest memory is learning to read 'Muffin the Mule' when I was about three.

I was picked on because I was timid. I had younger sisters; I couldn't turn to them for help. I didn't have an older brother.

The thing with me, I can't talk about my work. I find it very difficult.

I'm just never getting there. I'm getting round to it. I'm beginning to understand it a bit more.

He told me I didn't understand, that we were from the bleak industrial wastes of North England, or something, and that we didn't understand the Internet. I told him Fall fans invented the Internet. They were on there in 1982.

When I was 18, the vision was to make music that didn't exist, because everything else was so unsatisfactory.

I like to push people till I get the truth out of them.

I don't want security guards. I don't think security guards are particularly good for your writing.

I read daft history books. Sometimes the books I read are a bit crackers or strange.

It's just like music when you reckon it up. It's like listening to Pavement it's just The Fall in 1985, isn't it? They haven't got an original idea in their heads.

Every day is great for me. I dislike rose-coloured glasses.

I used to be psychic, but I drank my way out of it.

'Re-Mit' is going to terrify people. It's quite horrible. The Fall have had enough and we're coming for you.

All these cities I go to, I never see them. They may be the most beautiful places in the world, but I'll just usually go to the nearest bar. I need a couple of hours by myself.

Being in The Fall isn't like being in another group. It isn't a holiday. A lot of musicians are really hard to deal with. They aren't as smart as me.