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Damon Biography

“I couldn’t fit in with the lads at school. I was the weirdo. Post-stroke-gay. I always got called gay.”

“The girls I went out with were the ones involved with the school plays – as Bohemian as you can get in an Essex comprehensive.”

“Dave’s learning to fly. He’s almost a pilot. Who can say that out there? No one. He’s almost a pilot!”

“I don’t care who I snog, girls or boys. It’s not a sexual thing at all, it’s more of a header.”

“In the Sixties people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, people take Prozac to make it normal.”

“The only image change is that I’ve got more money to buy T-shirts – I wear the same clothes but more T-shirts!”

“I don’t feel special any more. I feel happier.”

“We sing about this country and how we feel about it. We tell stories.”

“We’ve always seen ourselves as putting on white coats and going into the lab.”