I had one of those Muhammad Alis where he had his dressing gown on and you put your hand up his back and he could punch. He was Action Man size with a switch on his back, you flick that and he punches. It was mega, I wish I still had it.








I was laying in the grass and in the distance were huge football size roses, all different colours. They went for miles and miles, as far as the eye could see. All I could see were roses. And people were coming to do me harm but they were getting caught up on the rose thorns. I could see them right in the very distance caught on the thorns and bleeding, they couldn't get any further. They couldn't touch me. That was beautiful. My best ever dream.





Women have had a rough deal in history, haven't they? I'd say Mary. Not Jesus' mother but his girlfriend. I believe she must've given him a lot of power. The bible made her a ho, so she must've had some power. With those people, women can either be a saint - which is unachievable - or they're hookers. Jesus was basically just an angry guy and it was Mary that soothed him. I can relate to that because women tame us and they give us our power. You have a barney with your girl you feel shit. If your girl gives you a kiss you feel great. So I'll say Jesus' Mary was the greatest woman who ever lived, though I never met her.







God. I believe that the creator of all creation, the force that we can't get a hold of, is such a powerful thing. I only fear God. Some people fear the devil but the devil's a bum. The devil's going down. There's no point in fearing devilish folks because they're gonna destroy themselves. We see that on a daily basis.










My Doctor Who, when I was a kid, was John Pertwee but I'm not gonna pick him because of the way that he talks and his blue-rinse hairdo. I'm gonna say Chris Eccleston because I think he's a fantastic actor. I love the way he's an arrogant northern guy and he won't shift for nobody, a typical northerner. He won't turn left for nobody. That's really to be admired.

On my greatest hits I asked people to give me a quote. I've got Dom Joly and John Sim and Shaun Ryder, a few others and Chris Eccleston. I met him on the street one day and he just pointed his finger and said "Same DNA as stardust", which is a lyric from my song 'Stardust'. So I asked if he'd do the TV advert for 'The Greatest' and he said that he'd promised himself, when he left drama school, that he'd never do adverts. He just shot up even more in my estimations after that.







Foghorn Leghorn because he really really makes me laugh, especially when his little nephew comes over to visit and he's a little genius and does all these mathematics. But I have got a soft spot for Daffy Duck, because of the way he talks. "Suffering succotash!"








Probably Martin Luther King. I read 'Bearing The Cross', about the last three weeks of his life. He knew he was gonna die, he knew that in taking on the cause he would be a target. There's a story that he's sitting at the kitchen table and he asks God: "Why now, why now?" because he has a vision that he's gonna get killed. In the last few days of his life, he and his family are being followed by the CIA and he knows he's gonna get taken out, it's just amazing. It's almost like the same story as Jesus. I can't think of anyone with that courage and how he did it all with a smile on his face. Now forty years later, his speeches can still make you cry or make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. I wish there was another Martin Luther King about today and I bet I'm not alone.








Pele because he was a gentleman as well. George Best was a bum but Pele was a gentleman. I think Pele's got a lot of bottle doing that Viagra advert as well. Brilliant!











'F.E.A.R.' Lyrically I think it's my best song. I think it's clever. I'm not saying I'm clever but I think the lyrics are clever. I buzz off the fact that I did it. I think the sound is really uplifting. I'd been listening a lot to Classic FM, digging the sounds but missing the power that electric music has. So we mixed it like a rock 'n' roll record, like the violins are big fat guitars coming through Marshalls. I think 'F.E.A.R.' is my best tune.

I don't know where songs like that come from. Like, 'Keep What You've Got'. I was sitting there thinking "I really wanna do some smart lyrics here," cause I was working with Noel. I was sitting with a pen and paper struggling, then I had a spliff to get myself inspired, and then they just dropped in one and I was like, "Shit, where's that come from?!
The invisible man's just wrote them for me!"





Giving up karate two months before I took my black belt. I trained for seven and a half years and then I got into this thing of: "Who the fuck do they think they are to grade me?" I didn't go for it but the kid I was training with, they said he wouldn't get it, and he got his so it makes me think I would've got mine. It'd take me about four years to get back there. I do want to do it though. It's my only regret though. "Je ne regrette rien!" [starts to sing Edith Piaf as we make our excuses and leave...]