Nice words from the Manics

Here's what the Manics had to say about Johnny Marr: "But everybody really admires the comfort of melancholia way too much these days. Everybody loves their troubadour, and I love a good troubadour, but you need something else to counteract it. Everybody seems so disgusted by somebody just going, ‘You want a solo? I’ll give you a fuckin’ solo!’ ‘Ooo that’s disgusting.’ "
"Where I come from that’s not acceptable! That’s why The Smiths were so brilliant, because they were zestful, it was in your face, The Smiths were still an attack for me, Johnny Marr was a buccaneer, he was fuckin’ amazing. They were going, No, you will fuckin’ listen!’ It’s a big difference." (From interview with www.hotpress.com )