Shaun Ryder

When you're young, everything's boring, basically.

— Shaun Ryder

I don't really regret anything about my youth.

— Shaun Ryder

My dad loves it - being onstage - but I don't.

— Shaun Ryder

It is amazing what humans can put up with.

— Shaun Ryder

My missus does all the cleaning. She loves it.

— Shaun Ryder

Good music always sticks around.

— Shaun Ryder

I'm more of a sea lion than a lion.

— Shaun Ryder

I think I'm a really good dad.

— Shaun Ryder

I didn't learn the alphabet until I was 28 and could only learn that when someone told me to sing it.

— Shaun Ryder

The only thing I took to Glastonbury in 1990 was a ton of tin foil!

— Shaun Ryder

I love rap. I love hip-hop. But something is wrong when every song, no matter what, has got a rap.

— Shaun Ryder

If I put anything negative in me then it seems to amplify the situation. I have to think positive.

— Shaun Ryder

When he was young and because he was off his nut, Bez would spit when he talked.

— Shaun Ryder

I know a lot of people in the music business who came from working-class backgrounds and they vote Tory.

— Shaun Ryder

I don't get involved with the music scene any more. It's just alien to me.

— Shaun Ryder

All my kids grew up around showbiz so they know it's just a job.

— Shaun Ryder

It was cycling that got me off drugs. I'd get on my bike very early in the morning and keep cycling until…

— Shaun Ryder

“So, that was the original Happy Mondays line-up before Bez joined. Shaun Ryder, Paul Ryder, Mark Day, Paul Davis and Gaz Whelan.…

— Shaun Ryder

My job is to go out partying and entertaining and it's all in an excitable environment. Doing that after night - it…

— Shaun Ryder

My mam collects everything to do with everything we've ever done. I don't remember us doing Happy Mondays underpants but my old…

— Shaun Ryder

I wasn't interested in anything at school apart from making sure I had the latest fashion on my body and making sure…

— Shaun Ryder

I don't know why we said half the stuff that we did to journalists. It was almost as if we didn't think…

— Shaun Ryder

When I hit 40, I ballooned. I thought it might have been age, abuse, but it wasn't, it was a thyroid condition.

— Shaun Ryder

I don't have a problem with saying, 'I love you.' I probably said it to the whole of the red-light district in…

— Shaun Ryder

'Tiger King.' They are absolutely gone with the fairies, they're all absolutely raving out of the box, the lot of them. All…

— Shaun Ryder

When we came along in 1982, music was getting boring - like 1976 when punk hadn't happened. We wanted to be rock…

— Shaun Ryder

When the Mondays split up I looked at the others who'd rather sign on the dole than work with me and Bez,…

— Shaun Ryder

The problem stems from the ADHD. The nutty behavior. You have got all this energy going and you can't focus on anything.…

— Shaun Ryder

Me and my dad have exactly the same head and nose.

— Shaun Ryder

I wouldn't want to be 20 again.

— Shaun Ryder

I'm not really good with hangovers.

— Shaun Ryder

My mum and dad only had me and my brother.

— Shaun Ryder

I've had a few alien encounters.

— Shaun Ryder

Don't trust anyone that doesn't like any Bowie songs.

— Shaun Ryder

I'm from a close-knit Catholic family.

— Shaun Ryder

I saw my first UFO in 1978.

— Shaun Ryder

I always loved messing around with words.

— Shaun Ryder

I've got six kids from three mums.

— Shaun Ryder

People always ask if I miss the drugs and the partying. I'm a 58-year-old man - no, I don't!

— Shaun Ryder

When I was 15 and starting my first job as a messenger boy at the post office, delivering telegrams.

— Shaun Ryder