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" I used to be one of those kids who couldn't keep my mouth shut. "
Ian Brown
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" I see The Stone Roses in '89 as Technicolor: we were all about joy and possibilities of life. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I actually was able to give up shopping in February '99. "
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" I've got six solo albums. I've been round the world three times. I don't even think about the Roses. "
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" I'd never been paid for the first Roses LP - it was 2002 before we received any royalties. "
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" I wasn't on stage to be worshipped or for people to look up to me. I was with the crowd. "
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" Everything I've ever achieved, I've done on my terms. "
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" Belief outweighs talent. Self-belief's got me everything, self-belief. "
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" 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. "
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" My biggest fault is that I give people too much credit. Then they let you down. I'm 99.9 per cent perfect - that's how I look at myself and, therefore, everybody else too. "
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" I give thanks for everything that's ever happened to me and for everything I've got. "
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Got
Me
" We're the most important group in the world. "
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" I love karaoke - I usually do Blondie's 'Heart Of Glass,' or 'Try A Little Tenderness.' "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Believe
" I spent the summer of '88 indoors, writing 'Shoot You Down,' 'Bye Bye Badman,' and 'Don't Stop.' "
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" I went to a friend's 40th in Manchester, and there was a karaoke machine, and no one was having a go. My mate said, 'No one's singing because you're in the room.' I said, 'Who am I, Frank Sinatra?' They made me sing flipping 'My Star' to a backing track that sounded like '80s Roxy Music. It was pretty embarrassing, but I did it. "
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Friend
Music
" It's a horrible name, Coldplay. It doesn't conjure up any positive thoughts. "
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" You're never alone on the dole in Manchester. "
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