Quotes from Shaun Ryder

I saw my first UFO in 1978.

I'm proper schizophrenic - really, really, really shy, but also a bit of a loon.

I'm more of a sea lion than a lion.

My mam collects everything to do with everything we've ever done. I don't remember us doing Happy Mondays underpants but my old girl reckons she's got a pair.

Adidas have been my pals for years. I might have been skint these past few years but I might also have been naked if they'd not kept sending me the freebies.

People always ask if I miss the drugs and the partying. I'm a 58-year-old man - no, I don't!

My job is to go out partying and entertaining and it's all in an excitable environment. Doing that after night - it gets boring, you know what I mean?

Men don't have to grow up like women do. Women are expected to grow up with every year that passes. Men can get away with being kids until they're at least 40 - I did.

So I'm Labour, although I couldn't vote for Corbyn - he'd have taken too much money off me!

The first time I voted I was 53-years-old. I never got involved in it before the 2015 general election. I voted Labour.

All my kids grew up around showbiz so they know it's just a job.

Yeah, when I had Covid all I could eat was fruit. Big bags of pears every day.

Don't trust anyone that doesn't like any Bowie songs.

I actually stop breathing, I think it's 80 times a night, because I have sleep apnea. I've had it since I was a kid.

People forget I'm that old. They still think it's 1988, when I was 26. They think I'm Peter Pan!

The Shaun Ryder in the Happy Mondays isn't the real Shaun Ryder. It's a caricature. Always has been.

I'm from a close-knit Catholic family.

I stole my first albums 'Pin-Ups' and 'Hunky Dory' by David Bowie from the first super-sized supermarket in Salford, which also sold tents and camping gear.

My missus does all the cleaning. She loves it.

When you're a young rebellious kid, you think you can beat the system, and when you grow up you realize you can't.

Seriously, I do 20 lengths a day. I get a few funny looks in the pool from people who think, 'Isn't that that Happy Mondays geezer? What's he doing here?'

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

My muscles have caved in. I go to bed at night, and next day I've got this pot belly where all my muscles have collapsed; so I look fat, but there's nothing I can do about it.

It was cycling that got me off drugs. I'd get on my bike very early in the morning and keep cycling until very late at night, day after day, until it was out of the system.