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" Even on songs we've got that are about a girl, there's always something there that's a call to insurrection. "

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" I was skint, and I had to move back to my mum and dad's house, back into the room I shared with my brother when I was a kid. I kept getting people on the streets telling me that they loved me; it didn't mean anything to me because I was still borrowing tenners off my pensioner father to go and get some chicken. "

" I've not thought about the Stone Roses since we quit. How many LPs do I have to make to stop people talking about it? "

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

" We wrote 'Stellify' for Rihanna, but as we got to the end of writing it, I thought, 'You know what? I'm gonna keep this for myself. We'll give her another one.' She'd have probably sung it better, but it is too good for me not to do it. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Honestly, going solo is the second best thing that's ever happened to me after my kids. "

" We should be growing carrots up the side of the Empire State Building or Big Ben. "

" I actually was able to give up shopping in February '99. "

" Putting another human being above yourself isn't healthy. I think it's capitalistic. "

" With the Roses, I knew we were great; I felt that we would achieve something. On my own, I had no idea. "

" We started out to finish groups like U2 - that was what it was all about. "

" It is a fact that everyone's got a limited run in music - but who's to say how long that run lasts? I used to think that there would be no way I'd still be in music when I was 40. I used to think anyone who was 40 was an old man, and they probably shouldn't be doing it anymore. "

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

" When I was 9, I was into T. Rex, Gary Glitter, and Alice Cooper. I knew The Beatles because my nan introduced me to them, but T. Rex was the first band I got into myself. I got 'Metal Guru' a few months after hearing 'Children of the Revolution' in Pwllheli in North Wales at a market. "

" Everybody is a star. It's true. And if you've got a light, don't let it go out. 'Cos some people sink under. "

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

" When the ravens leave the Tower, England shall fall, they say. We want to be there shooting the ravens. "

" I like a lot of that Chicago stuff, house music. "

" One person might perceive me as godlike, and the next might think I'm a northern thug. I don't think I've done myself any favours... but I swear I've not had a proper fight since I was 14. "

" The jails are full of kids from kids' homes. You're 16 years old, and you're out on the street. How you going to fend for yourself at 16 if you've not had an education? You're going to turn to crime. "

" I wasn't on stage to be worshipped or for people to look up to me. I was with the crowd. "

" In March 1977, I taped the single 'Career Opportunities' off Piccadilly Radio, which was the '70s equivalent of downloading, and then the album came out in April 1977. "

" 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. "

" You're never alone on the dole in Manchester. "

" I always loved Oasis because when they came out, they did express that they loved us, and they saw that we did it, and they thought they could do it, too. "

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

" 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. "

" I can't think of anyone who's reformed for art's sake. That's why the Roses will never reform. "