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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" At primary school, I thought I was George Best. Then I got to secondary school, and it was more serious. "

" 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. "

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

" I've always said prayers. "

" I never wanted to be a pop singer, but I always watched pop programs and knew I could do better than the people I was seeing. "

" I'm solo, and I love being solo. I believe I went through the Roses so I could become a solo music-maker. That's what I believe. "

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

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

" Getting a grey beard's not cool. "

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

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

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