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" I don't much like 'Wonderwall,' but the effect that song has on people, I can't deny it. "

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" In business, you can have one massive success that earns $50 million overnight, and that's it. You're successful. End of story. But in the music business, you have to keep on doing it. "

" You don't have to be great to be successful. Look at Phil Collins. "

" I absolutely loved being famous. It was all great, up until the point when it wasn't. "

" I'm against people downloading music. "

" I don't have the genetic make up of a frontman, but I'm learning how to do it. "

" I first came to London when I was 22 and working as a roadie. Having watched the 'News At Ten' all my life, I thought Big Ben was going to be massive, but I was underwhelmed. "

" I don't like being on television when I'm playing live. I don't even like being on Jools Holland or any of them programs. "

" Twenty years from now, will we listen to Lady Gaga? No. She might think she is making a stand for the freaks and the weirdos. But they're not going to have any decent music to play, are they? "

" With every song that I write, I compare it to the Beatles. The thing is, they only got there before me. If I'd been born at the same time as John Lennon, I'd have been up there. "

" I'm a happy-go-lucky character. I'm not that miserable. But I can never let anyone into my world. "

" Fame is something that is bestowed upon you because of success. Success is something you have to chase. "

" There's not enough good things in the world. "

" As I get older, I don't aggressively pursue songs. All the great ones just appear. "

" You can't be a mod and a rocker. You have to choose sides. "

" I've got my own style on the guitar, sure, and I play rhythm in a certain way, and I use certain inflections. People have said that to me, and I understand it. "

" I don't live to work; I work to live. "

" I have 3 kids and a cat and a busy, noisy house. I get more time to relax when I'm working. "

" I've never been asked to do a collaboration. I guess I just don't give off that come-and-get-me vibe. I wouldn't be adverse to doing one with Coldplay or U2 - anyone who sells 50 million albums. "

" You've just got to trust your instincts and realize that you can't please all the people all the time. You've got to please yourself ultimately in the end. "

" There's enough music in the world. There are enough rock stars. "

" If everyone in the music business were brutally honest about what their intentions were then you could sort things out, but it's all smoke and mirrors. "

" Anything that's of any use, famous people get hold of it and take it for themselves and it gets a bad rap. "

" Every album I've ever been involved in, on the day that it came out I believed in it. "

" I know there's bands that might write something that sounds like The Smiths, and they'll go, 'Oh, it sounds like The Smiths, we've got to make it sound not like The Smiths.' "

" I like Chris Martin. I think he's a really great songwriter. "

" I remember the '70s constantly being winter in Manchester and the Irish community in Manchester closing ranks because of the IRA bombings in Birmingham and Manchester, and you know the bin-workers' strike, all wrapped up in it... They were violent times. Violence at home and violence at football matches. "

" There's no reason, ever, to be late. Or early. "

" My son ain't going to be miserable because he's going to be the child of a rock star, the end. "

" I'm not interested in making money. It's just that with my talent, I'm cursed with it. "

" There's nothing good on the news. You're not telling me CNN is all cats in trees, are you? Nothing can be that good if Piers Morgan is in it, you know what I mean? "