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

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" I give thanks for everything that's ever happened to me and for everything I've got. "

" When you live in Manchester and it's raining every day, you've got to imagine the sun sometimes. When you're brought up in concrete, you aim for the green leaves. And when you get to the green leaves, you yearn again for concrete. "

" I like the fact that a group can become successful, and by way of what you are, you can show up all the other people who are around you. "

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

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

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

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

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

" I'm lucky enough to be one of them music makers who can do a dance festie or a rock festie. "

" I started doing karate when I was 11. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I actually was able to give up shopping in February '99. "

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

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

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

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

" 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? "

" 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. "

" People in Russia learned English off the Beatles. People in Japan learned English off the Stone Roses. Noel Gallagher says music can't change the world, but the Roses made him want to start a group, so it changed his world. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I love karaoke - I usually do Blondie's 'Heart Of Glass,' or 'Try A Little Tenderness.' "

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

" Even me mum can't tell me what to do. "

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

" 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. "

" People tend to settle for the fiver rather than going for the pot of gold. "