Top 99 Quotes & Sayings by Shaun Ryder - Page 2

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

My missus does all the cleaning. She loves it.

If I was working in Greggs I'd still be working until I was 65.

Me and my dad have exactly the same head and nose.

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

Maybe 20 years ago I was all right looking, but certainly not now. I've lost it.

When Happy Mondays came out, that was different to all the music around then.

I'm on Radio 2 all the time now. Feels a bit weird but there you go.

I've not stopped drinking, I'm not a born again one of them, we just don't have booze in the house.

I grew up in the '60s and '70s, where it was still acceptable to say, 'Well, you're not academic, so that's fine, you'll do it some other way.'

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

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

I love rap. I love hip-hop. But something is wrong when every song, no matter what, has got a rap.

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.

My dad loves it - being onstage - but I don't.

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 wouldn't want to be 20 again.

I've been asked to write my autobiography, but I've not been interested.

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?

There were some great tunes played between '67 and '73. The Beatles were everywhere in those days, the most famous people in the world. You couldn't avoid them if you wanted. Not that I did.

Drugs shut you down, cut you off emotionally. You think being off your head makes life easier, but it's a lot easier when you're not.

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.

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.

I always loved messing around with words.

My mum and dad only had me and my brother.

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

The Mondays were important because nobody sounded like us.

I had Oliver Reed as a neighbor. He was always in the pub and despite his age, he always wanted to wrestle everyone.

When he was young and because he was off his nut, Bez would spit when he talked.

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

I didn't think I'd ever follow Bez on to a reality TV show. But it was brilliant for him winning 'Celebrity Big Brother' and he's still my best mate.

When we came along in 1982, music was getting boring - like 1976 when punk hadn't happened. We wanted to be rock 'n' roll. We grew up with The Velvet Underground, the Stones and Mars bars and Marianne Faithfull and we knew we didn't want to be boring - and we weren't!

I've enjoyed all my times, teens, twenties, thirties, forties, and now I'm enjoying my fifties.

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 wasn't interested in anything at school apart from making sure I had the latest fashion on my body and making sure that I had a bit of dollar.

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

From being a little kid, I've always been interested in space. 'Star Trek' and 'Close Encounters' - not 'Star Wars.'

We're not the only life in the universe. We're just not. It's ridiculously impossible.

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