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" I was skint, and I had to move back to my mum and dad's house, back into the room I shared with my brother when I was a kid. I kept getting people on the streets telling me that they loved me; it didn't mean anything to me because I was still borrowing tenners off my pensioner father to go and get some chicken. "

Ian Brown

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

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

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Thoughts

" 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. "

" One person might perceive me as godlike, and the next might think I'm a northern thug. I don't think I've done myself any favours... but I swear I've not had a proper fight since I was 14. "

" I wrote a lot of lyrics in prison, but they'd all be like, 'Crawls upon the shoulders, hatred in the eyes.' I wrote about 50 songs in there that were all about jail. I've come out and thought, 'I've only served eight weeks; I can't really write a concept album about jail.' "

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

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" I've always said prayers. "

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Music

" 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. "

" The Beatles were great; we know that. But we were trying to do a new thing. Why do we need to recreate the Sixties? "

" 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'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'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 can't think of anyone who's reformed for art's sake. That's why the Roses will never reform. "

" With the Stone Roses, I always thought we'd be successful because we had some great songs. "

" I thought it would be more interesting to make a musical autobiography than an actual autobiography. "

" We need to ban all air-freighted food. Carrots from Holland. Potatoes from Egypt. It's got to stop. "

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

" I started doing karate when I was 11. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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