Speaking to icWales he said: "Kelly has said a lot of things in the press and I haven't said a thing. I've looked at some of the things Kelly's said in the papers since the split and thought, 'How can he say that, hand on heart?'. And that pisses me off. He said he loves me like a brother. Well, I wouldn't treat a brother the way I got treated."

On the band's later work - and especially most recent album 'You Gotta Go
There To Come Back' - Cable continued: "Kelly had already written the songs
[for the last album] and he'd already done some drum machine parts. Richard
had put some bass on them. So what was left? Join the dots. Which was cool
by me because I'd got to the stage of 'If that's the way it's going to be,
so be it'. I thought the record was OK, not a great one. The early stuff was
better, especially the first and second albums. And I've been surprised
since I left the band, to have people come up to me, people in the business
as well as fans, and say the same. I thought the Stereophonics music was
getting a bit bland. The rock stuff on the last album was few and far
between."

On his relationship with Kelly, Stuart said: "You'll never change Kelly. He doesn't compromise, he doesn't delegate, you do it the Kelly Jones way or not at all. We'd go for ages being best friends then not speak for months. We were friends since childhood but you drift apart, people's lives change."