Johnny Marr Quotes

I listen to Nine Inch Nails, Green Day, U2, and it becomes part of me, comes out in my music. Wherever it goes, there will always be the fabric of New Orleans in it.

I love Morrissey!

Jonas Brothers fans are a force to be reckoned with.

I'm not an '80s fan. I'm more '70s New York pre-punk kind of thing, and I guess I grew up with '90s grunge, post-punk pop music.

I always like to sing along to some depressing, angry Morrissey.

It was R.E.M. who showed other Eighties bands how to get away with ignoring the rules - they lived in some weird town nobody never heard of, they didn't play power chords, they probably couldn't even spell 'spandex.' All they had was songs.

I'm just lucky to have the type of friends and musicians and people dedicated to my music that I do.

I would probably work with Drake as he is massively inspirational to me as a writer as well as an artist. If not him, then Susan Boyle!

That's always been a dream for me, to be able to collaborate and make music with the people that inspired you to make music.

I started listening to the Cure around the time I discovered Joy Division and, like Joy Division, they have shaped my taste in all sorts of dark and dreary ways.

I know that there are a lot of sort of silly things that one thinks as a music listener about bands. I am a fan of many bands.

The artist that had the biggest impact on me was Michael Jackson. He was my Elvis and Beatles. When I was 15, I listened to a lot of Sinatra, but my jean jacket didn't have, 'I love Frank' on it, it had, 'I love AC/DC', 'Guns N Roses', 'Pearl Jam'. I thought Eddie Vedder was the second coming.

The groupies are far more real now than there were then.

I kinda learned to sing singing to Echo and the Bunnymen songs and Smiths songs: Morrissey would be a big favorite.

I've not met a soul who wants to see The Wanted over One Direction. The thirst for those boys is insane.

I'm a big Rick Ross fan, and I think everybody knows I'm a big Kanye fan.

N'sync - I had all their faces taped to my jeans for their concert when I was 13.

When I play a gig and look out at the audience, you're literally looking at a sea of Joy Division T-shirts.

I feel that I am pregnant by music, and it is the father and mother of my child.

I loved Interpol when they came out, but I never wanted to be in Interpol.

I've followed Tegan and Sara's music for quite a while, and I've been a fan of them and what they do and what they stand for. We've run into each other at one or two festivals over the years, and I kind of fanned out on them.

Music was always a part of my life.

I'm not embarrassed that I'm a fan of Justin Bieber.

I try to take whatever I can from the songs I grew up listening to, these vibed-out pop numbers, and make them my own in some weird way.

I don't know what the vintage Sonic Youth sound is.