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" 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. "

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

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

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

" I spent the summer of '88 indoors, writing 'Shoot You Down,' 'Bye Bye Badman,' and 'Don't Stop.' "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 thought it would be more interesting to make a musical autobiography than an actual autobiography. "

" Everything I've ever achieved, I've done on my terms. "

" If I was in the gutter, and my kids lived on the kerb, I'd go and get a job in B&Q before I'd reform the Roses. I gave everything I had to the Stone Roses and ended up hitting a brick wall. I'm never going to give anyone a foothold on that wall again. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I feel like I've established myself as a music maker in my own right. "

" The Roses should have made it as the biggest band since The Beatles, but we didn't. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I started doing karate when I was 11. "

" 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. "

" We feel we're the only British group worth exporting since the Sex Pistols, definitely. "

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

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