“I feel [Mott’s fans are] the same as me. I know a lot of fans like it if you’re aloof. That was David’s game. And it works. DeFries used to say to me, ‘I hate it every time you open your mouth.’ I couldn’t be bothered doing the star thing. We were working-class. I’d look at Lennon, and think, ‘Why the ’ell do I’ave to be the strong, silent type? Lennon just said what was on his mind, why can’t I?”

Ian Hunter, Uncut #110, July 2006