[on what people get wrong about him] They always try to break us down into individuals, and I think Manic Street Preachers is more of a collective thing. Though Richey [
Richey Edwards] is lost to us, it's the loss of a limb of Manic Street Preachers, rather than of the individual Richey which all the Richey-ites, Richey-philes see it as. I mean, personally to us it is a loss of Richey, but to Manic Street Preachers it's just that part of the machine is missing, it's still Manic Street Preachers.