Biografía

[on U2 3D (2007)] I think 2-D was enough for U2, and 3-D is one D too many.

It is very difficult to get the people of our country to agree about anything. So much divides us in the UK. The gap between north and south, rich and poor, the various stratas of the class system. At regular ­intervals the politicians agonise about what it means to be British. But we don't even know if our country will survive a referendum in Scotland. National disunity - that is our distinguishing feature, as in the old Likely Lads sketch where Terry Collier goes through a list of all the people he loathes, starting with ­southerners, and ends up by concluding that he hates the bloke who lives next door.

Morrissey's controversial remarks on the Falkland Islands make you wonder - exactly what stance are Echo & The Bunnymen taking on the nuclear build-up in Iran?

What Morrissey thinks about the Falklands matters about as much as what Tears for Fears think about the situation in the Sudan.

There was a time when we believed in the same things, when we shared a national vision, when we loved the same values. But that was the Second World War. It has all been downhill since. A bit like Morrissey's solo career.