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" 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? "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Permacultures - where you use the immediate environment to grow food - should be mandatory. "

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" 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.' "

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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. "

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

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

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

" I feel like the Ryan Giggs of music. "

" I'd love to see the world without liquor for a week. "

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

" We're all anti-royalist, anti-patriarch. Cos it's 1989. Time to get real. "

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

" People want to adulate people. "

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" I don't actually personally get off on guitar music. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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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 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. "

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

" I love harmonicas - old blues players like Sonny Boy Williamson. "