"Everyone told me you shouldn’t be writing about fucking cauliflowers." (from Q 183 Nov '01)

"I never wanted to be in a cool indie band playing the Camden Falcon. I always wanted to be the biggest band in the world. If not, why bother?" (from Q 183 Nov '01)

"Ever since I was a kid I was the jester in the corner, showing off to my older brother and his mates. I was the scapegoat to make them look good—thrown in the swimming pool or dangled over the banisters in a sleeping bag. It made me want to do better than everyone else." (from Q 183 Nov '01)

"Well, I’m a Gemini. So I can be in everyone’s face one minute and really quiet the next. I like having people around me who can also make me realise when I’m being a fucking idiot." (from Q 183 Nov '01)

"Sometimes all you want is to sit on your own sofa, eating beans on toast, with your own shit around you." (from Q 183 Nov '01)

"I like being kicked up the arse by other songwriters." (from Q 183 Nov '01)

"If you listen to the words and go away and think about what I’ve written, then great. But, at the same time, if it just takes you away from the factory for five minutes, then we’ve done our job." (from Q 183 Nov '01)

"I’ve never done it for the toys or the fast cars—it’s always been to prove that I can do this better than anyone else." (from Q 183 Nov '01)

"I’m useless and too self-conscious." (from Q 183 Nov '01)

"I walk into Albert Hall, and there’s Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend standing there, and I’m in my parka with a bag slung over my shoulder and I feel like a schoolkid..." (from Q 183 Nov '01)

"We all want to be Morecambe & Wise, we all want to be Bono, we all want to be fucking Bob Dylan…" (from Q 183 Nov '01)

- RICHARD JONES -
"I was the cute kid other families used to take on holiday with them." (from Q 183 Nov '01)

"I’m trying to correct myself as the years go by." - referring to his tattoos (from Q 183 Nov '01)

"So we turn up at this hotel room and it’s empty. Then, one by one, they all turn up—except Adam Clayton ‘cos he doesn’t drink any more. Then you find yourself sat in one corner and Bono’s going to the bar getting beers. Once the ice was broken, we started asking loads of questions: How d’you break the States? What happens when it’s all shit?" - explaining an after-show meeting with U2 in Stockholm, Sweden (from Q 183 Nov '01)

- STUART CABLE -
“Kids see me in the street and they’re over the moon. Without wanting to sound blasé or wanky it’s only then that I think, Oh fuck, I’m the drummer in Stereophonics, as most of the time I just feel like Stuart Cable, the bloke who used to drive the school dinners van—but with a better job and more money." (from Q 183 Nov '01)

"You tour, you do your partying, then you come home and switch off." (from Q 183 Nov '01)

"I said to my wife, If it ended tomorrow, I couldn’t complain. All I wanted when I started out was a nice house—which I’ve got—with a bar and a pool table in it—which I’ve got. My wife always wanted a gym—which she’s got. The only thing to come is a swimming pool, which I’m building in a couple of months. That’s about it for me." (from Q 183 Nov '01)

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