Composing is what drives me; it's not the pursuit of fame. My songs are like pages in a diary. — Mick Hucknall Copy Share Image
I'm a songwriter, my love of music has never left me and I literally don't seem to be able to stop writing… — Mick Hucknall Copy Share Image
I first sang 'Holding Back the Years' in my earliest band, Frantic Elevators. When the Elevators split and I started Simply Red,… — Mick Hucknall Copy Share Image
I'm going to write music that's appropriate to my age. And if younger people want to come along with me, they're welcome… — Mick Hucknall Copy Share Image
As I've gotten older I've got more bass in my voice but also because I don't talk very much during the day… — Mick Hucknall Copy Share Image
I just want to write songs in my little corner. And I still love music, I've not been worn down by cynicism. — Mick Hucknall Copy Share Image
The Beatles and the Stones had Elvis and Hollywood, but when it came to my generation America meant Richard Nixon and Vietnam. — Mick Hucknall Copy Share Image
Whatever the means of delivery, whatever the technological and corporate structures, music will always be about groups of talented individual performers communicating… — Mick Hucknall Copy Share Image
Otis Redding was the ultimate 60s soul singer. We only get an indication of what he might have become, but he had… — Mick Hucknall Copy Share Image
At art school, a teacher said: 'The best paintings are when you get lost in a piece of work and start painting… — Mick Hucknall Copy Share Image
I first heard Miles Davis as a student, when I was struck by his extraordinary musicianship, and his work did affect some… — Mick Hucknall Copy Share Image
Copyright's democratising effect is seen most clearly in the music business. Anyone who can speak, sing, rap or hum and operate a… — Mick Hucknall Copy Share Image
Well, the good news is that there's quite a lot of cynicism about major labels within radio and the press. I think… — Mick Hucknall Copy Share Image
I must have been six or seven - standing in front of a full-length mirror with a yardstick, pretending to be John… — Mick Hucknall Copy Share Image
I actually felt sorry for Liverpool bands like Bunnymen and Wah!, having this immense pressure of following the Beatles. I suppose I… — Mick Hucknall Copy Share Image
When we treat music as an industrial commodity, and young people as merely consumers, we overlook the joy of participating in music...… — Mick Hucknall Copy Share Image
My dad knew I was mad about music. While he worked as a barber he would hear songs on the radio and we'd have… — Mick Hucknall Copy Share
You're damn right I'm comfortable, I've worked very hard to be comfortable. But something I've always tried to impress upon people is that these… — Mick Hucknall Copy Share
You live the life of a gipsy when you are on tour, and that's not ideal for family life. — Mick Hucknall Copy Share
I knew I was famous the day I played football with mates in L.A. I scored a goal and Rod Stewart jumped on top… — Mick Hucknall Copy Share
A Hard Day's Night' is the most perfect pop album you'll ever get to hear in your life; it's filled with definitive versions of… — Mick Hucknall Copy Share
Copyright is fundamentally socialist - it is radical and redistributive, subversive even. How else would you describe a form of property that anyone can… — Mick Hucknall Copy Share
Around 1988 I started to 'dread' my hair; because it's curly, it would go into dreads naturally if I stopped combing it. But the… — Mick Hucknall Copy Share
Ageing is something to celebrate. If you can avoid long-term debilitating injury and illness, it's something you have to embrace because the other choice… — Mick Hucknall Copy Share
I'm quite happy being famous for what I do but I'm not happy about being famous for the sake of being famous. — Mick Hucknall Copy Share
I didn't want to be one of those touring musicians who get to hear about their daughter taking her first steps while they're in… — Mick Hucknall Copy Share
