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Around 1988 I started to 'dread' my hair; because it's curly, it would go into dreads naturally if I stopped combing it. But the dreads went down only one side, so I had to have extensions put in.
- Mick Hucknall
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#Go
#Hair
#Only
#Side
Those who say they're not ambitious are being disingenuous.
- Mick Hucknall
#Being
#Disingenuous
#Say
#Those
#Who
Being abandoned by my mother gives me a sense of insecurity that I will never recover from. I have to try and recreate that balance by trying to create a sense of self-worth. And yes, being on stage is a part of that.
- Mick Hucknall
#Balance
#Insecurity
#Me
#Mother
#Stage
I knew I was famous the day I played football with mates in L.A. I scored a goal and Rod Stewart jumped on top of me. I thought: 'I had a poster of you on my wall when I was 12.'
- Mick Hucknall
#Day
#Famous
#Football
#Me
#Top
At art school, a teacher said: 'The best paintings are when you get lost in a piece of work and start painting in a stream of consciousness.' I wanted to do music, not art, so started writing lyrics that way. The first song I wrote was called 'Ice Cream and Wafers.' The next was 'Holding Back the Years.'
- Mick Hucknall
#Art
#Best
#Music
#Teacher
#Work
Wine is my passion. I'm not keen on the snobbery or elitism of wine, that's not what it's about - I just really enjoy it.
- Mick Hucknall
#About
#Enjoy
#Just
#Passion
#Wine
What helped a lot was becoming a dad at 47. I can't begin to imagine how I would have coped when I was just starting out with Simply Red. Gabriella and I would have been another one of those divorce statistics.
- Mick Hucknall
#Dad
#Imagine
#Red
#Simply
#Statistics
Ageing is something to celebrate. If you can avoid long-term debilitating injury and illness, it's something you have to embrace because the other choice is being dead. So embrace it, grow with it. And that's what I try and do.
- Mick Hucknall
#Celebrate
#Choice
#Dead
#Grow
#Try
I must have been six or seven - standing in front of a full-length mirror with a yardstick, pretending to be John Lennon. In my head, I was always going to be a singer, and The Beatles were probably the first musicians that had a major impact.
- Mick Hucknall
#Always
#First
#Impact
#Mirror
#Standing
I'm quite happy being famous for what I do but I'm not happy about being famous for the sake of being famous.
- Mick Hucknall
#About
#Being Famous
#Famous
#Happy
#Sake
I've got one of those heart-shaped faces and I take weight on my cheeks and jowls and gut, so in pictures I look much heavier than I actually am.
- Mick Hucknall
#Cheeks
#Gut
#Look
#Take
#Weight
I love quality drinks - a really good beer, or a great wine.
- Mick Hucknall
#Beer
#Good
#Great
#Love
#Quality
For a frontman of a band, good hair is a requisite.
- Mick Hucknall
#Band
#Good
#Hair
#Requisite
Possessions aren't my raison d'etre.
- Mick Hucknall
#Possessions
When we treat music as an industrial commodity, and young people as merely consumers, we overlook the joy of participating in music... of learning to play an instrument, of joining a band or an orchestra, and playing gigs.
- Mick Hucknall
#Joy
#Learning
#Music
#People
#Treat
I am a 'champagne socialist,' and I'm proud of it.
- Mick Hucknall
#Am
#Champagne
#I Am
#Proud
#Socialist
People strive for success, but it's very lonely at the top. Now I realise the ultimate prize is a family.
- Mick Hucknall
#Family
#Now
#People
#Strive
#Success
Copyright promotes artistic creativity and the free circulation of ideas.
- Mick Hucknall
#Copyright
#Creativity
#Free
#Ideas
People always tell me that redheads go silver. Long, silver-grey hair would be my ideal way of ageing.
- Mick Hucknall
#Hair
#Long
#Me
#People
#Way
I have sensitive skin, so if I shave every day, I go blotchy. I tend to shave and leave it a couple of days. Then a couple of days becomes a week, I look up and I've grown a beard.
- Mick Hucknall
#Day
#Every Day
#Look
#Skin
#Week
I feel enormously privileged to be part of the generation that witnessed the magic of the Beatles first hand, and I think 'A Hard Day's Night' connected with my four-year-old self because it was the whole package: an album and a movie.
- Mick Hucknall
#Day
#Feel
#Generation
#Magic
#Night
By 1981 I was tired of being skint. I was living on £25 a week for four and a half years.
- Mick Hucknall
#Four
#Half
#Living
#Tired
#Week
I've always thought my dad was fantastic and now I'm a dad myself I can see what an incredible sacrifice he made as a man in the 60s - he was there every day for me, cooked my meals and shaped me.
- Mick Hucknall
#Dad
#Day
#Man
#Myself
#Sacrifice
You're damn right I'm comfortable, I've worked very hard to be comfortable. But something I've always tried to impress upon people is that these folks in the houses of parliament affect what's in your wage packet, the welfare of your kids, your health. Why wouldn't we be interested in it?
- Mick Hucknall
#Comfortable
#Hard
#Health
#People
#Why
Everyone dreams of being in a band because they want to be like the Beatles, but even the Beatles weren't always that happy.
- Mick Hucknall
#Always
#Band
#Dreams
#Everyone
#Happy
My dad knew I was mad about music. While he worked as a barber he would hear songs on the radio and we'd have endless discussions about them. So I got my first record player when I was 11 years old.
- Mick Hucknall
#Dad
#Mad
#Music
#Old
#Radio
I like good food and I've always had a very natural empathy with women.
- Mick Hucknall
#Empathy
#Food
#Good Food
#Good
#Women
Copyright is fundamentally socialist - it is radical and redistributive, subversive even. How else would you describe a form of property that anyone can create out of nothing?
- Mick Hucknall
#Copyright
#Create
#Nothing
#Property
Copyright's democratising effect is seen most clearly in the music business. Anyone who can speak, sing, rap or hum and operate a simple sound recorder can create a copyright song. Imagination is the only limit.
- Mick Hucknall
#Business
#Imagination
#Music
#Simple
There's no such thing as a typical day because I lead a very random life.
- Mick Hucknall
#Because
#Day
#Lead
#Life
#Random
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