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

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

" I used to be one of those kids who couldn't keep my mouth shut. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" People want to adulate people. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I feel like the Ryan Giggs of music. "

" When I was 9, I was into T. Rex, Gary Glitter, and Alice Cooper. I knew The Beatles because my nan introduced me to them, but T. Rex was the first band I got into myself. I got 'Metal Guru' a few months after hearing 'Children of the Revolution' in Pwllheli in North Wales at a market. "

" When the ravens leave the Tower, England shall fall, they say. We want to be there shooting the ravens. "

" Oasis are okay, but they're like The Sun: base. "

" People have to realise you don't help African children singing along to 60-year-old men playing their tunes from 40 years ago. "

" If you want to call me a Karaoke King, I'll take it. "

" Since we were kids, we grow up believing that astronauts are heroes - that to go up in a rocket is a heroic thing. These guys are bigger than movie stars. To me, it's... all a well-dressed-up lie, basically. There's billions spent on rockets up there, and there's millions starving down here. It don't make sense to me. "

" 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'd like to change the world. Eradicate poverty, racism, and sexism... all the usual things. "

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

" 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. "

" Just because I'm a successful singer who's loved and has been loved for years doesn't mean I'm sitting behind electric gates in my own fantasy land. "

" Getting a grey beard's not cool. "

" 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. "

" My wife is Mexican, and she's really influenced me: She's got an impressive collection of Mexican music. "