Richey Edwards quotes:

Hollywood and Disneyland are the legacy of Europe's cultural imperialism. We gave them nursery rhymes and they gave back film. Televised riots are as American as Barbie/ Big Macs. Tomorrow the riots will be forgotten but Mickey mouse will still be there. Welcome to Disneyland.

When I sit in my bedroom with a book and a bottle of vodka, I do it because I'm sad, not because I think it's cool. I do it because I want to forget what I am thinking about.

I was celibate until the age of 21. I stayed in my bedroom reading Camus and Nietzsche

I have no regrets. Regrets are meaningless. You can't change yesterday or tomorrow. You can change only this present moment.

Everything in life has let me down.

When I cut myself I feel so much better. All the little things that might have been annoying me suddenly seem so trivial, because I'm concentrating on the pain

Self abuse is anti-social, aggression still natural.

It's about people who take their frustration out on everyone around them. I never raise my voice. Cutting myself or hurting myself is the way I deal with anger.

We hate Slowdive more than we hate Hitler.

The only perfect circle on the human body is the eye. When a baby is born it's so perfect, but when it opens its eyes it's just blinded by the corruption and everything else is a downward spiral.

All my life I've felt weak compared to other people. If they want to crush me then they can. But I know I can do things that other people can't.

All rock and roll is homosexual.

All rock n roll is homosexual.

All you can do to the past is to never want to be like it.

I believe in nothing but it is my nothing.

I find cutting myself attractive ... I find it sexual.

I have a very childlike rage, and a very childlike loneliness.

I'm not really worried what people think about me. Because I judge myself harsher, and on more strict terms, than they ever could probably.

I'm not a person who can scream and shout so this is my only outlet. It's all done very logically.

In terms of the 'S' word, that does not enter my mind. And it never has done. In terms of An Attempt. Because I am stronger than that. I might be a weak person, but I can take pain.

It's important not to be embarrassed by your past. The contradictions are part of what we are.

It's all about self-discipline. Like, self-obsession is connected completely with self-loathing, and it's the same with, if you've got a weight problem. It's all about... finding some worth in yourself, knowing that you've got the discipline to do it, and knowing that other people maybe can't do it. And it's also, I think, really connected to the fact that you almost feel, like, silent, you have no voice, you're mute, there's just no, you've got no option. Even if you could express yourself nobody would listen anyway. Things that go on inside you, there's no other way to get rid of them.

I've never hit anybody in my life. I never would, and the only way I could make a point was by hurting myself...It's something I've done since I was a teenager.

Love is an impossible concept.

On things like censorship, I think everything should be allowed on television. You know, I mean anything. I don't know who believes that anymore. Every left wing party says there should be some degree of censorship, that some things are bad taste. But it's unjustifiable for anyone to decide what is bad taste.

The only freedom left is the freedom to starve.

There's an awful lot of white British kids who have never really gone hungry, always had a roof to live under but at the same time are desperately unhappy. It's not total poverty, just a poverty of ideas.

We are young, beautiful scum pissed off with the world.

You get respect in society if you are aggressive. If you fight then people respect you. If you fight back, people like you for that as well. When Ive been beaten up, if Ive been in a pub doing nothing wrong, the fact I chose not to fight back, that I would never throw a punch back, people say Im weak. I dont think thats a weak thing at all. I think why should I descend to their level? If Ive done nothing wrong, throwing a punch back makes me as bad and corrupt as them. As evil as them, as stupid as them.