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. – Mark E. Smith
‘Re-Mit’ is going to terrify people. It’s quite horrible. The Fall have had enough and we’re coming for you. – Mark E. Smith
I don’t want security guards. I don’t think security guards are particularly good for your writing. – Mark E. Smith
When I was 18, the vision was to make music that didn’t exist, because everything else was so unsatisfactory. – Mark E. Smith
Being in The Fall isn’t like being in another group. It isn’t a holiday. A lot of musicians are really hard to deal with. They aren’t as smart as me. – Mark E. Smith
I’m just never getting there. I’m getting round to it. I’m beginning to understand it a bit more. – Mark E. Smith
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. – Mark E. Smith
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. – Mark E. Smith
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. – Mark E. Smith
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. – Mark E. Smith
