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born 1969 Wales
Nicky Wire (born 20 January 1969) is a Welsh musician. He is best known as the lyricist, bassist and secondary vocalist of the Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers.
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Someone should build a bypass over this shithole.
One of the biggest corporate lies in history, up there with selling terrible mortgages.
God definitely created humans as the dregs, we have all the greed and the despicable acts. Humanity, worldwide, is now at its lowest ebb. Depressing, isn’t it, so let’s not get started on THAT.
There’s no problem mixing style with socialism - Fidel Castro was stylish!"
I wanted to ring everyone and tell them I was number one but then I realised I didn’t have any friends.
I’m not pretending the past was any good — I'm just saying the present is worse.
It was supposed to be a joke. As I was saying it I thought ‘This is going to be really funny’. Then this deathly silence descended on the place.
A journalist in one of the Sunday papers called us ‘little trolls’, because we’re Welsh. Well, I’m 6ft 3in and I’m the sexiest rock star in the world.
I often fantasise about going into the jungle. I’d like to go in there and be as miserable as possible and refuse to do any of the tasks and we’d all starve to death. And everyone would despise me. So on that level I quite fancy it."
My daughter just delights in telling me that Ed Sheeran beats me all the time. She just keeps saying that if I was as good as Ed Sheeran I'd be happier.
I could never write something like (Radiohead's) 'I’m a creep, I’m a weirdo'. I'd write something like 'I’m a cricketer, I’m boring, I’m a gardener, I'm a hoovering housewife'.
Not that I'd ever want one, and I fucking despise it. But why has he got a knighthood? It's Sir Nick Clegg, Head of Facebook Foreign Affairs. Can you think of a worse sentence at the moment than that?
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