I can write, boy, I can write. That's what I do. The trouble is that it's too bloody easy for people, that's why music is in the sorry state that it …

- Mark E. Smith

The gigs I enjoy are the ones where I'm so angry and paranoid, and I hate the audience so much, that I put everything into it to feed off the aggress…

- Mark E. Smith

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

- Mark E. Smith

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

- 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 stre…

- Mark E. Smith

Blue cheese contains natural amphetamines. Why are students not informed about this?

- Mark E. Smith

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

- Mark E. Smith

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.…

- 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