Mark E. Smith quotes:

Re-Mit' is going to terrify people. It's quite horrible. The Fall have had enough and we're coming for you.

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

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

'Re-Mit' is going to terrify people. It's quite horrible. The Fall have had enough and we're coming for you.

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?

I'm just never getting there. I'm getting round to it. I'm beginning to understand it a bit more.

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.

I read daft history books. Sometimes the books I read are a bit crackers or strange.

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.

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.

Fear is something I try not to absorb.

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 knew it was coming. I knew they didn't have the nerve.Three days in and they've got faces like vexed tomatoes, their skins flaking sci-fi style: burnt to fuck. They were an embarrassment; not only to me and the wife and The Fall fans but to their own generation.

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.

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

The thing with me, I can't talk about my work. I find it very difficult.

I don't want security guards. I don't think security guards are particularly good for your writing.

If you're going to play it out of tune, then play it out of tune properly.

I do feel like an outsider, but I don't lose any sleep over it.

A lot of musicians are really hard to deal with. They aren't as smart as me...

When I was 18, the vision was to make music that didn't exist, because everything else was so unsatisfactory.

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

I like to push people till I get the truth out of them.

I like to push people till I get the truth out of them. Get them drunk, or whatever. Then discover what they really think. Push them and push them and push them.

We were playing a festival in Dublin the other week. There was this other group, like, warming up in the next sort of chalet, and they were terrible. I said, 'Shut them cunts up!' And they were still warming up, so I threw a bottle at them. The bands said, 'That's the Sons of Mumford' or something. 'They're number five in charts!' I just thought they were a load of retarded Irish folk singers.