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

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" I'd like to change the world. Eradicate poverty, racism, and sexism... all the usual things. "

" Northern soul was huge in Manchester in the '70s and '80s; I went to a lot of all-nighters. "

" People tend to settle for the fiver rather than going for the pot of gold. "

" 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. "

" I've always said prayers. "

" I feel like the Roses were a great group, but I never wanted to try to do it again. I knew I couldn't get a band that would compare to the Roses, that would have an impact like the Roses. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Just because I'm a successful singer who's loved and has been loved for years doesn't mean I'm sitting behind electric gates in my own fantasy land. "

" 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 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 give thanks for everything that's ever happened to me and for everything I've got. "

" I started doing karate when I was 11. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I see The Stone Roses in '89 as Technicolor: we were all about joy and possibilities of life. "

" England's a small nation, and the pop music industry is built on fashion. "

" 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 was jailed for using words that I still dispute. Anyone who's ever met me will tell you that I'm not a violent person. "

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

" I wrote a lot of lyrics in prison, but they'd all be like, 'Crawls upon the shoulders, hatred in the eyes.' I wrote about 50 songs in there that were all about jail. I've come out and thought, 'I've only served eight weeks; I can't really write a concept album about jail.' "

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

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

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

" My sister bought me the Koran in 1990. I always thought the stories in it were magical. "

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

" Hell is being stuck in a lift with Elton John and the Queen Mother. "

" Every time I do interviews, they ask me about the same things - poverty, war, and the power of the church. "