Renegade: The Lives and Tales of Mark E. Smith

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• I only have three chairs in the house; one for the wife, one for me, and one for a guest. No more. One guest at a time - that's my philosophy. You don't want your house turning into a hippy commune. (S. 136) · Christian_alternakid
• I hope this book turns out like Mein Kampf for the Hollyoaks generation. (S. 122) · Christian_alternakid
• The music industry and the press (...) were only socialists when it suited them. They were like your classic Christian: cunt all week and then a saint on Sunday. (S. 122) · Christian_alternakid
• When you're mired in the shit of the times with bland bastards like Elvis Costello and Spandau Ballet, you start to question not only people's tastes but their existences. (...) I wanted an album to be like reading a really good book. You have a couple of beers, sit down and immerse yourself. None of those fuckers did that. I don't think they attempted it. I'd rather listen to the Polish builders clanking away next door than any of that crap. (S. 113) · Christian_alternakid
• The post-Fall life really gets to a lot of them. It's as if they've been to Vietnam or had a particuarly fraught space-excursion and their senses have been obliterated. That's all they can talk about, that's all that remains in their fried heads. I'm thinking about setting up a post-Fall-syndrome therapy hour. That'd chase a few wolves from the door. (S. 56, über Ex-Fall-Mitglieder) · Christian_alternakid
• Bob Geldof's is a brillant chancer. He's built a whole career on Live Aid and do-gooding; a whole career that wasn't there before. I mean, who listens to The Boomtown Rats and buys his albums? At least Bono, for all his faults, has a career outside of all that hand-shaking. (S. 93) · Christian_alternakid
• Joe Strummer was no different. It was terrible the way he died, but it needs saying that he wasn't the savviest cultural commentator. His politics were all over the place; bluster over substance, that's what he represented. All very chlichéd.
  The sad thing about it all is he diestanced himself from his middle-class-background and education, appropriated this tough heart-on-the-sleeve messenger stance so convincingly, but lacked the wit to take it anywhere fresh. He was preaching to the converted, and I don't just mean his fans, but himself as well. He daren't offend anybody, because they'd charge him with being a phoney, and he daren't look at it in a sceptical was, because then he'd be employing his privileged education. That was the crux of his problem. (S. 93) · Christian_alternakid
• People have a funny relationship with their dogs. Blokes in the 80s used to buy them because they were soft cunts and wanted to look hard - you'd see them prancing around with these slavering beasts, these sharks on leads. It seems to be on its way back, all that shit. There's no real need to have something like that around the house, is there? Cats are much brighter. (S. 121) · Christian_alternakid