Mark E. Smith
Mark E. Smith
Mark Edward Smithis a British singer, songwriter and musician. He is the lead singer, lyricist, frontman and only constant member of the British post-punk group the Fall...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth5 March 1957
difficult i-can
The thing with me, I can't talk about my work. I find it very difficult.
thinking people drunk
I like to push people till I get the truth out of them. Get them drunk, or whatever. Then discover what they really think. Push them and push them and push them.
trying
Fear is something I try not to absorb.
thinking sticks musician
The thing with me. I can't stick musicians. I've thought about this. I can't stand them, and being stuck in a studio with them I think that's my strength I can hear what they can't.
son numbers bottles
We were playing a festival in Dublin the other week. There was this other group, like, warming up in the next sort of chalet, and they were terrible. I said, 'Shut them cunts up!' And they were still warming up, so I threw a bottle at them. The bands said, 'That's the Sons of Mumford' or something. 'They're number five in charts!' I just thought they were a load of retarded Irish folk singers.
writing thinking security-guards
I don't want security guards. I don't think security guards are particularly good for your writing.
sleep outsiders over-it
I do feel like an outsider, but I don't lose any sleep over it.
play tunes ifs
If you're going to play it out of tune, then play it out of tune properly.
came cases data followed heard later paper pulled sitting survey three weeks
The CDC epidemiologists pulled up the data immediately and followed up on cases in real-time as the data came in. We heard three weeks later that the paper survey was still sitting on someone's desk.
blades broke came hard helicopter side tail
The helicopter came down hard and rolled over on its side and broke its blades off and broke its tail off.
came jerry
The day Jerry came here you could tell he was special. It's not like he's over-achieving. He's that good.
blocking guys leaving shots
He can go to the basket, but he's not finishing. They had some big guys in there blocking the shots without leaving the ground.