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" Honestly, going solo is the second best thing that's ever happened to me after my kids. "
Ian Brown
Me
Second
Solo
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" My wife is Mexican, and she's really influenced me: She's got an impressive collection of Mexican music. "
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" Stardom's transitory. Nothing really changes except people's attitudes. "
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" I went into jail with absolutely no respect whatsoever for authority, and I came out with even less. "
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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. "
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" Oasis are okay, but they're like The Sun: base. "
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" 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. "
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" I give thanks for everything that's ever happened to me and for everything I've got. "
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" We started out to finish groups like U2 - that was what it was all about. "
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" When the ravens leave the Tower, England shall fall, they say. We want to be there shooting the ravens. "
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" I thought it would be more interesting to make a musical autobiography than an actual autobiography. "
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" I liked him, that Jarvis Cocker. I like the fact he was androgynous, he could appeal to everybody. He wasn't just a lad pretending to be a thug. "
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" 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. "
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" People have to realise you don't help African children singing along to 60-year-old men playing their tunes from 40 years ago. "
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" At primary school, I thought I was George Best. Then I got to secondary school, and it was more serious. "
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" I like the fact that a group can become successful, and by way of what you are, you can show up all the other people who are around you. "
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" 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. "
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" Putting another human being above yourself isn't healthy. I think it's capitalistic. "
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" Hell is being stuck in a lift with Elton John and the Queen Mother. "
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" Getting a grey beard's not cool. "
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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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" We're against hypocrisy, lies, bigotry, show business, insincerity, phonies, and fakers. "
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" I am gentle. I think nearly everyone who makes music is sensitive - I don't care how hard they pretend they are. "
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" 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. "
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" We believe that anyone can do anything, and everyone's a star. And that's evident from the shows we do. It just feels like a whole bunch of people in a room celebrating something - maybe just being alive. "
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