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(When asked: Are you currently feeling devious, truculent, or unreliable?, referred to what judge John Weeks called Morrissey) The judge who said those words only did so because they described exactly what I am not, nor have ever been. He would be delighted that you remember his quote. This judge, John Weeks, had his eye on the press when he made that comment. Some judges are a bit like ex-drummers, they'll do anything for a bit of press attention. I was delighted when Michael Stipe called him a 'fuckhead' in Q magazine. It was the first time anyone had ever stood up for me in the press on this matter. (1999)

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