The rapper – who was just 17 when he shot to fame with his first solo album ‘Tha Block Is Hot’– said his mother told him he had to turn his back on the education system and focus on his music career because she knew he was going to do well.
He said: “I was still in school after I dropped my first solo album. I was still in school. It was platinum and I was still in school.
“My mum, she made me quit. She said, ‘Look, I’m going to let you quit school, but them b****s better get you a tutor!’’
Despite his mother’s insistence, Wayne continued to go to his old school anyway, despite regular confrontations with his teachers..
He told MTV: “They used to make me get off the campus and all kinds of wild s**t!”
He recalled saying to teachers: “‘C’mon man, I’m my own millionaire! You gonna really kick me off a public school campus? I just was going to this school last week, making straight A’s.’
Once his debut album was released, the rapper said he knew he’d made it when he bought a brand-new Mercedes-Benz and was given a BMQ two-seater as a gift from his label.
The musician – who is joined in the supergroup by Led Zeppelin rocker John Paul Jones and Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme – insists he would find it impossible to abandon the group following the success of their self-titled debut album, which was released last month.
He said: “You put the three of us together in a room something, is going to happen. I don’t think we’ll have any trouble making five, six, seven records if we want to. It’s just a matter of when and where and how.
“I wouldn’t want to stop doing it - it’s a fun band to be in.”
The rocker, who drums for Them Crooked Vultures, believes his latest venture can co-exist alongside his other band Foo Fighters.
He added to BBC Newsbeat: “It is tough because doing this is the greatest thing in the world and our other bands are awesome too. It’s just a matter of trying to figure out how to do them all. We’re here now and it’s a nice place to be.”
The ‘Just’ hitmakers are “excited” about their new material – which they first started working on in the summer – but refused to say what direction the songs are taking.
Guitarist Ed O’Brien wrote on the band’s Dead Air Space blog: “The vibe in the camp is fantastic at present, and we head off into the studio in January to continue on from the work we started last summer.
“I am so genuinely excited about what we’re doing, but for obvious reasons I can’t divulge anything more. we all love surprises don’t we?”
Ed is particularly delighted by the songs because he feels the band are working much better together than they were five years ago.
He added: “Ten years ago we were all collectively (that’s the band) in the land of ‘Kid A’ and although hugely proud of that record, it wasn’t a fun place to be. What’s reassuring now, is that we are most definitely a different band, which should therefore mean that the music is different too and that is the aim of the game. Keep it moving.”
The ‘Killimangiro’ rockers believe they will never win any awards or enjoy major commercial success but are happy to be a staple fixture on the live performance circuit for as long as they can.
Drummer Adam Ficek said: “I’d like to keep going as long as we can make a living from it. We’re not really in it to become the biggest-selling band out there or to try and win the Mercury Prize.
“That never comes to bands like us, anyway. If you’re a bigger band with a lot of media backing paying a lot of money, then that’s fine. I don’t really see us as that sort of band.
“We’re more quiet and detached and unseen. We’re not really that kind of pat-on-the-back Mercury band, or any of that T4 stuff. We’re more your kind of meat and potatoes band, we just want to play.”
The drummer also admitted that the group find it frustrating that their music is often overshadowed by the antics of their troubled frontman Pete Doherty.
Adam added to website This Is Nottingham: “It’s always been that way. The tabloids do have that power and that potency to make or break you by how they portray you. You just have to hope that people can see through that.
“The shame is that people don’t really see through that.”
The rockers – who released their twelfth studio album ‘No Line on the Horizon’ earlier this year – are always striving to do better and don’t understand why other bands are not as ambitious.
Guitarist The Edge said: “It matters to us that we still make music that connects, and we are still capable of potentially doing our best-ever album.
“It’s not a foregone conclusion that our best work is behind us. That still makes it really exciting.
“We get that. Sometimes I think, ‘Why has it been so difficult for people in the past to maintain that?’ We’re still learning. We’re still ambitious creatively, in terms of where we can take the band. There’s an awful lot there for us.”
The ‘One’ hitmakers insist their view isn’t “arrogant” but because they don’t feel any limitations or restrictions on their creativity.
The Edge added to Rolling Stone magazine: “We all genuinely believe it. It’s not arrogance. It’s because we are still hungry. There’s no reason why we can’t do this. You think about other art forms and artists — filmmakers, painters, sculptors. It doesn’t follow that your best work is done in your late twenties, early thirties, and then it’s downhill. Unfortunately, that’s the way rock ‘n’ roll has panned out.
“Our only limitation is our ability to apply ourselves, to be hard-minded on our work. We push and push until we get to those special pieces of music, those lyrics. And it doesn’t arrive on call. You can’t turn it on.”
The ‘Fire’ hitmakers are currently writing their follow-up LP to ‘West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum’ and have promised fans something radically different to their previous three records.
Singer Tom Meighan said: “Sergio Pizzorno has got a body of songs that are sounding great. There’s one that sounds like Nirvana, which is really grungy, a big riff.
“It’s nothing like what we’ve done on this record, it’s really old school grunge. There’s a lot of Pink Floyd, ‘Dark Side Of The Moon’, piano-based songs at the minute.”
The group released their latest album in June this year, three years after second LP ‘Empire’ but have reassured fans they won’t leave it so long before their fourth record comes out.
Tom added to BBC 6 Music: “I think we’ll do it a bit quicker this time. We took a good three months off last time, because we toured for about four years and that’s the only reason we took that amount of time off, because we toured like crazy.
“I think this time we’ll have a few weeks off or a month off, then we’ll go into the studio and record the new record. Hopefully we won’t wait around so much this time.”
The ‘My Life Would Suck Without You’ singer says she has started work on a new LP and is promising a dramatically different direction to her previous efforts.
She said: “We’re already working on it but it’s probably not going to hit until, like, the fourth quarter of next year - around Christmas next year.
“There’s still some like singer/songwriter stuff on the album, but there’s … I don’t know. It’s almost like Garbage-meets-pop-meets-Muse. It’s a little different.”
However, Kelly also said she is only in the early stages of the recording process and doesn’t know how the finished tracks will turn out.
She added to Q100 radio: “I don’t know how it’s going to end up. Who knows?” she said. “It always ends up being something completely different.”
In between working on her album, Kelly is also writing for other artists – but finds it hard giving the songs away.
She admitted recently: “So we’ve been writing for other artists but then I end up liking it so much that I can’t give them away.”
It was claimed earlier this week that the guitarist had departed the ‘Californication’ hitmakers and been replaced by session musician Josh Klinghoffer but now John has spoken out to reveal he actually quit amicably in 2008.
He wrote on his blog: “When I quit the band, over a year ago, we were on an indefinite hiatus. There was no drama or anger involved, and the other guys were very understanding. They are supportive of my doing whatever makes me happy and that goes both ways. To put it simply, my musical interests have led me in a different direction.”
John – who previously left the group in 1992 and rejoined in 1999 – said he “really loved the band” but wants to focus on his own projects.
He added: “Over the last 12 years, I have changed, as a person and artist, to such a degree that to do further work along the lines I did with the band would be to go against my own nature.
“There was no choice involved in this decision. I simply have to be what I am, and have to do what I must do.”
The singer says her track ‘Dance in the Dark’ – from new album ‘The Fame Monster’ – is about the fact people can be too insecure to feel comfortable having sex, not a party in a nightclub as people have perceived.
She explained: “The record is about a girl who likes to have sex with the lights off, because she’s embarrassed about her body.
“She doesn’t want her man to see her naked. She will be free, and she will let her inner animal out, but only when the lights are out.
“She doesn’t feel free without the moon. These lyrics are a way for me to talk about how I believe women and some men feel innately insecure about themselves all the time. It’s not sometimes, it’s not in adolescence, it’s always.”
The ‘Bad Romance’ star admits it is a subject close to her heart as she also struggles with her own feelings of self doubt.
She added to the Los Angeles Times newspaper: “The song isn’t called ‘Dance in the Light’. I’m not a gospel singer trying to cross people over. What I’m saying is, ‘I get it. I feel you, I feel the same way, and it’s OK.’ “
The former Sex Pistols frontman claimed there is a “gel” between him, drummer Bruce Smith and guitarist Lu Evans, which will work well on their upcoming tour.
He said: “This is the best gel of personalities for the music.
“Out of all the people I have worked with, Lu and Bruce are closest to the work we will be doing.”
The outspoken singer also claimed his current act are more introspective than the punk pioneers.
He added: “The Pistols is an absolutely brilliant band and we said a lot of things that needed to be said.
“PiL is a more in-depth approach. It’s self investigation, feelings and emotions. I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that.”
John, 53, recently reformed PiL and says he is happy to be back out on stage as he found life “dull” out of the public eye.
He said: “I tried being a hermit and found it rather a dull lifestyle. If you have something to say then you want someone to pay attention or at least to have the opportunity for them to tell you to shut up and go away.”
