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" By 1993, the Stone Roses had become this huge, beautiful cruise ship just floating about in the middle of nowhere with no captain. "

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" I love people, me, I believe in people. I love people too much. "

" I've got six solo albums. I've been round the world three times. I don't even think about the Roses. "

" Belief outweighs talent. Self-belief's got me everything, self-belief. "

" People have to realise you don't help African children singing along to 60-year-old men playing their tunes from 40 years ago. "

" I'd never been paid for the first Roses LP - it was 2002 before we received any royalties. "

" I'd like to write songs for other people, see things from a different perspective. I'd like to watch things from the dugout instead of the pitch. "

" We're against hypocrisy, lies, bigotry, show business, insincerity, phonies, and fakers. "

" I'm solo, and I love being solo. I believe I went through the Roses so I could become a solo music-maker. That's what I believe. "

" I'm only really good at making music. I wasn't convinced when I started out, but then I heard the first Stone Roses' LP. "

" You're never going to improve on a Michael Jackson song if you cover it. "

" I don't like to play anywhere with a banner for Carlsberg or vodka or whatever. I'm not a drinker myself, and I don't like feeling like I'm working for the liquor companies. "

" Permacultures - where you use the immediate environment to grow food - should be mandatory. "

" When you live in Manchester and it's raining every day, you've got to imagine the sun sometimes. When you're brought up in concrete, you aim for the green leaves. And when you get to the green leaves, you yearn again for concrete. "

" I started managing myself in October 2004, and since then, it's gone up and up. "

" I gave it up three weeks before my black belt, foolishly. I got to my third brown belt and must have trained for 18 months but never went for it. I was nearly 18 and got this thing in my head about, ' Who are they to grade me?' Trying to be a rebel when I should have done it. It's my only regret, not going for a black belt. "

" We need to ban all air-freighted food. Carrots from Holland. Potatoes from Egypt. It's got to stop. "

" I feel like the Ryan Giggs of music. "

" My wife is Mexican, and she's really influenced me: She's got an impressive collection of Mexican music. "

" I love karaoke - I usually do Blondie's 'Heart Of Glass,' or 'Try A Little Tenderness.' "

" I am gentle. I think nearly everyone who makes music is sensitive - I don't care how hard they pretend they are. "

" When The Stone Roses first came out, the early reviews called me 'simian.' I had to look that up at the time. "

" I went into jail with absolutely no respect whatsoever for authority, and I came out with even less. "

" Stardom's transitory. Nothing really changes except people's attitudes. "

" People want to adulate people. "

" You'll never find a Manchester band slagging off another Manchester band, but within each Manchester band, people will rip each other apart: Mondays, Smiths, New Order, Roses, Oasis. "

" I never wanted to be a pop singer, but I always watched pop programs and knew I could do better than the people I was seeing. "

" I love harmonicas - old blues players like Sonny Boy Williamson. "

" I'm lucky enough to be one of them music makers who can do a dance festie or a rock festie. "

" One thing I've always loved and rated me dad for is that, because of him, I've never seen the Queen's Christmas speech. "

" My biggest fault is that I give people too much credit. Then they let you down. I'm 99.9 per cent perfect - that's how I look at myself and, therefore, everybody else too. "