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"Nicky Wire, the lanky, floppy-haired man who these days writes all of the Manic Street Preachers lyrics, is talking to a Japanese journalist. She perceives some kinship between his group and Radiohead. (She has already observed that, while she considers their new single too “dark and depressive”, it might do all right following the recent success of The Verve and Radiohead.) Sensibly, Nicky sidesteps the comparison. He quite likes Radiohead, but he does not consider himself to exist in the same world as theirs, or any other pop group’s. He lives in a terraced house in the Welsh valleys, where he writes, watches TV, walks the dog, paints on the walls, slouches around, and thinks. “I could never write something like ‘I’m a creep, I’m a weirdo’,” he explains. “I could write something like ‘I’m a cricketer, I’m boring, I’m a gardener, I’m a Hoovering housewife."
September 1998, The Face
"Where there’s nature, or where there’s breathing, there are true moments of joy. You’ve just got to recognise them and not take them for granted. And that’s what I try to do, have moments of elation in life, however small, five minutes a day, and be able to think, ‘Yeah, that’ll do. That’ll do me for now.’"
"A blank page of paper and a pen is the greatest invention – it’s so exciting to be confronted by possibility."
Nicky Wire, Q Magazine 2009
"I’m nowhere near as clever as I think I am. It’s just being around musicians a lot that makes me think I’m much cleverer than I am."
