You Don't Often Hear People Say, 'oh,

As A Shy Kid Growing Up In Sheffield, I Fantasized About How It Would Be Great To Be Famous So I Wouldn't Actually Have To Talk To People And Feel Awkward. And Of Course, As We All Know From Fairy Stories, When You Achieve That Ambition, You Find Out You Don't Want It.

France Is A Republic, And The Rules In Theory Have Been Made By Everyone Rather Than Imposed By A Dictatorship Or King Or Whatever. So It's Like, We've Got To Stick To These Rules Because We Made Them.

I'd Been Thinking I'd Have To Learn How To Play Really Well, But Obviously The Message Of Punk Was That You Just Learn Three Chords In A Week And You're Away.

Pulp Existed For 12 Years Before We Got Famous. Now, You Could Say That Was Just Lack Of Imagination, But It's Some Kind Of Quality Isn't It? Tenacity. You Could Also Say It Was Sloth.

It's Weird: The Leader Of The Conservative Party In England Is Two Years Younger Than Me, And I Still Don't Really Feel Like A Responsible Adult.