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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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Yourself

You

Education

" Getting a grey beard's not cool. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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.' "

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

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

" I always loved Oasis because when they came out, they did express that they loved us, and they saw that we did it, and they thought they could do it, too. "

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

" 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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Look

Stage

" The Roses should have made it as the biggest band since The Beatles, but we didn't. "

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

Ian Brown

Thought

Serious

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

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

Ian Brown

Take

Want

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

" 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 started managing myself in October 2004, and since then, it's gone up and up. "

Ian Brown

Myself

Then

" 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. "

Ian Brown

Positive

Thoughts

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

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

Ian Brown

House

Music

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

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

Ian Brown

Tell

Mum

" 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. "

" Belief outweighs talent. Self-belief's got me everything, self-belief. "

" We're against hypocrisy, lies, bigotry, show business, insincerity, phonies, and fakers. "

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

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