Marcel was a modern-day Robin Hood; he would rob from the rich because the poor have no money. - John Cooper Clarke

All my life, all I wanted to be was a professional poet. To me being a professional poet was better than notching up a hat trick at Old Trafford.....You get to wear fine clothes and perfume and nobody pulls you up on it. You get out of bed late in the day and nobody calls you a lazy bastard. A state of reverie and the virtue of idleness are paramount. Any poet will tell you this.

It was quite a tough school. Put it this way, we had our own coroner.

[on his Dad] He didn't share the general public's dim view of the late Joseph Stalin.