Mark E. Smith on drinking alcohol (transcript included)

"No, I'm not ashamed; I like a beer, you know---I don't think there's anything fucking---I think the worst thing is when people drink under the table, to be quite frank. Nothing worse than a secret drinker. I'm not ashamed of it, no. You always get that in the papers, you know like Mark is drowning in this fucking sea of Boddington's, you know what I mean? I've seen bands... they fucking drink Jack Daniels, they drink bottles of fucking Jack Daniels in the fucking carrier bags....you know, fucking, in the suitcases. If you drink you fucking put it on the table. That's the way I was brought up. You know what I mean? Bloody...they're going on, they don't drink...they're all bloody taking heroin and fucking all the rest of it. It's crap, man. If you drink in the open, you don't become an alcoholic."