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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 am gentle. I think nearly everyone who makes music is sensitive - I don't care how hard they pretend they are. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Maybe if you see me begging on the streets, you might find me doing The Stone Roses the next day. "

" They've had a hard life, the Oasis brothers. They've done really well to be semi-normal. It's always sad when your dirty linen is brought out in public. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I'm only really good at making music. I wasn't convinced when I started out, but then I heard the first Stone Roses' LP. "

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

" It's a horrible name, Coldplay. It doesn't conjure up any positive thoughts. "

" I started managing myself in October 2004, and since then, it's gone up and up. "

" By 1993, the Stone Roses had become this huge, beautiful cruise ship just floating about in the middle of nowhere with no captain. "

" I feel like the Ryan Giggs of music. "

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

" I love people, me, I believe in people. I love people too much. "

" I've never chatted up a girl in me life. I've always let girls come to me. I've never approached a girl to chat her up. "

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

" 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. "

" We started out to finish groups like U2 - that was what it was all about. "

" I've always said prayers. "

" I was really into punk when I was about 14. "

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

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

" I'd like to write songs for other people, see things from a different perspective. I'd like to watch things from the dugout instead of the pitch. "