Quotes from Shaun Ryder

I didn't DJ at Liverpool's Ruby Sky nightclub but a couple of newspapers said how great my DJ set was, and how I've straightened up, which is true, and how I was drinking tea. But I wasn't there!

I don't know why we said half the stuff that we did to journalists. It was almost as if we didn't think they were going to print it.

I don't have a problem with saying, 'I love you.' I probably said it to the whole of the red-light district in Amsterdam when I was about 21.

I never talk about me mates behind their backs, you know. I might have a laugh, but whatever I say about them I'll certainly say it to their faces.

I was in the dentist's chair for 11 hours and now I've got a set of gleaming teeth.

When I was 15 and starting my first job as a messenger boy at the post office, delivering telegrams.

I'm quite happy sat in front of the telly watching everything on Sky, Netflix, Amazon Prime. And the one called Roku. I've got the lot.

My kids that are grown up, in their 20s, they all go to festivals. They have to behave, though. When it comes to things like that it's do as I say, not do as I do.

When the Mondays split up I looked at the others who'd rather sign on the dole than work with me and Bez, and thought: 'Whoa, you're gonna throw this opportunity away and maybe never work in music again?' There was no way we were doing that.

I don't drink at home. I don't go to the pub or clubs.

He is like a bad dog, Bez. We lived together in a flat and if you didn't get up before him, he would get up and he would take your clothes.

Tony Wilson once compared me to WB Yeats. It didn't really mean that much because I didn't have a clue who Yeats was.

I've got allergies. Really badly. I'm getting worse as I'm getting older.

My brain gets about 10 things going on at once and the wires don't connect. They all go, 'It's the drugs,' and it's not. I have been like this all my life.

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

Wives and girlfriends really shouldn't be anywhere near the band. Not at all. Anyone who's listening to their girlfriend, they shouldn't be involved. All bands have Yoko Onos, and the Mondays were no exception.

When I hit 40, I ballooned. I thought it might have been age, abuse, but it wasn't, it was a thyroid condition.

I bike ride and swim but I don't exercise 'cos I like it. I do it because I've got a thyroid problem that can balloon my weight up to 20 stone if I stand still for five minutes.

Kids now, they're not willing to pay for music and movies. The only thing they seem to be willing to pay for is concert tickets.

I know a lot of people in the music business who came from working-class backgrounds and they vote Tory.

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.

I don't really regret anything about my youth.

The only thing I took to Glastonbury in 1990 was a ton of tin foil!

Education is about remembering stuff and I could never remember anything, so I didn't get an education.