Dave Rowntree

“Politics is show business for ugly people.”

“I was very much a late developer. I was a very chubby little boy. It's a miracle I got a girl to look at me.”

“The Britpop thing was a media creation. We were just four blokes in a band making music.”

“I'm a trained computer animator, that's what I do. I'm a nerd.”

“When we started Blur, we wanted to be the biggest band in the world.”

“I can't imagine any of us on our own, with the possible exception of Damon, being a solo artist.”

“The music industry is a strange beast. It's not like any other business.”

“Flying is the second greatest thrill known to man. Landing is the first.”

“I'm sure the other three are just as bored with me as I am with them.”

“Being a Labour councillor is not a glamorous job. There's a lot of casework and you're dealing with people's problems.”