Edwyn Collins quotes:

Music is my life and my passion...

I'm an old man now. I can't believe it. I'm listening to all sorts because I'm producing people.

The first thing that got to me was seeing David Bowie on a children's TV show, but Bowie was way beyond my aspirations. The Buzzcocks' Spiral Scratch came out in 1977 and it had a breakdown of the recording costs, then you saw Pete Shelley playing a broken guitar from Woolworths. We already had an idea of the kind of music we wanted to do, but punk showed us a way to do it.

At first it was difficult for me to draw. My right hand doesn't work anymore so I had to train myself to use my left hand. But I persevered. The first one I ended up finishing was the duck.

I wanted to sound new and exciting - the punk movement was over with for me.

I was crazy back then, I must admit. I had an extreme attitude.

I love my music and recording people.

I'm working and it's great. Life's great. Believe me on that. So what if I had a stroke? I'm getting on with things.