Mark E. Smith Quotes & Sayings

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

“If it's me and yer granny on bongos, it's the Fall.”

“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.”

“The thing with me. I can't stick musicians. I've thought about this. I can't stand them, and being stuck in a studio with them I think that's my strength I can hear what they can't.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“When I was 14, I used to have a calendar on my wall, crossing the days off until I was 15, because the school leaving age was 15. Then three months before I turned 15 they changed the leaving age to 16.”

“Blue cheese contains natural amphetamines. Why are students not informed about this?”