William Reid > Quotes

“When you're coming from a very mainstream household like we grew up in you have to find out for yourself about this other world of books and plays and music and drugs and sex - stuff that's always been there but you never saw much of except when you went to the library. You realise there's this secret society of coolness where there's a guy called William Burroughs who's a morphine addict and he writes these weird junkie books and he killed his wife when he was shooting the apple and you think 'Yeah, these are my people!”
― William Reid, Never Understood: The Jesus and Mary Chain

“we’d be having a laugh in the dressing room, then someone would come in with a camera and we’d all suck our cheeks in and start looking miserable.”
― William Reid, Never Understood: The Jesus and Mary Chain

“Hunter High in East Kilbride was where childhoods went to die.”
― William Reid, Never Understood: The Jesus and Mary Chain

“It never seemed to go smoothly, not least because we were absolutely fucking rat-arsed onstage and we’d not been playing together long enough to have any certainty about what was going to happen from one minute to the next anyway.”
― William Reid, Never Understood: The Jesus and Mary Chain

“It’s basically like the Kray twins had kids, and then their kids had kids, and then eight centuries later they own half the country, but if anyone asks how that happened they just say ‘Oh that was all so long ago.”
― William Reid, Never Understood: The Jesus and Mary Chain

“We still considered what we were doing to be pop music, even if our version of that was laced with poisonous feedback.”
― William Reid, Never Understood: The Jesus and Mary Chain