It's difficult for me because when it comes to Liverpool (the city, the people, the football club, and a very large percentage of their followers), I become like them - a narrow-minded, hypocritical bigot.
With (almost) everything else in life I like to remain open minded and objective. I like to hear alternate opinions on things and I like to learn (I say 'almost' but I've no time for either religion or feminists).
So trying to be easy-going and getting along with people is important to me: we're none of us perfect and we've all made fuck-ups of our lives somewhere down the line so I could never be judgmental about my fellow men.
However, I really do have to draw the line at scousers.
In all my years of life (and there has been a few!) I have never met one single scouser that I've liked or felt a connection with. To a man they have all been dishonest, untrustworthy and downright treacherous. Every single one.
I don't like to say it because obviously not all scousers are that way inclined, there may well be a few that are decent, down to earth, honest and reliable, but I have never met them.
I've been in the music business all my life and I've played some big venues, recorded in some famous studios and met some fantastic people (getting exceedingly drunk with Denny Laine was one memorable moment in my life), but every scouser I've met - celebrity or not - within a couple of minutes of meeting him I've wanted the thump him.
It's just bizarre that in all walks of life you meet good and you meet bad, but in all my limited experience of philanthropy all the underhanded, sneaky, two-faced people I have ever had the ill fortune to chance upon have been scousers.
Apologies to all you decent, likeable scousers out there, but if I'd only met any of you for just a few seconds maybe my biased view of you all would not be so negative.