>. I’m tone-deaf, right? If Mick Jagger put a gun to my head and said, “Play ‘Satisfaction,’” I couldn’t play it. I’m tone-deaf. I can’t pick up other people’s music. I have enough trouble picking up my own when I’ve written it,

>I couldn’t tune at all when I started playing as a young punk, the guitarist would tune it for me. This worked in a punk band, but as it went on it became very embarrassing. But I must admit, that when the first tuner pedal came out, I rushed out and bought 4.

>, “Being a bad musician meant I had to find my own way. If I’d known theory, I’d have probably played boring root notes like everyone else.”

>“Punk taught us you didn’t need to be a musician to make music. You just needed something to say.”

>“I tell the lads in The Light, ‘Don’t worry if you cock it up—just play it with conviction, and no one will notice.’ That’s how we did it in Joy Division.”

>“I’m still not a proper musician, am I? I’m just a lad from Salford who got lucky.”