Romeo is me!!

"Romeo is me, and Knock Knock, his next door neighbor was my next door neighbor, the guy I wrote it with [Paul Fraser]. Romeo Brass was the most autobiographical thing I’d done until This Is England. The whole ‘taking chips out of the chip packet on the way home’ was me. The chippie my mum worked at in Uttoxeter was my favorite. That’s got a special place in my heart. We didn’t have a lot of money so in the summer holiday as a kid I’d have to have my tea there, and when my mum wasn’t working I’d take my friends there and put it on her tab. At the end of one week she had to give them money just to pay for the food I’d eaten, so she didn’t earn anything. She wasn’t happy."