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

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" If I was in the gutter, and my kids lived on the kerb, I'd go and get a job in B&Q before I'd reform the Roses. I gave everything I had to the Stone Roses and ended up hitting a brick wall. I'm never going to give anyone a foothold on that wall again. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" People want to adulate people. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" In March 1977, I taped the single 'Career Opportunities' off Piccadilly Radio, which was the '70s equivalent of downloading, and then the album came out in April 1977. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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've never chatted up a girl in me life. I've always let girls come to me. I've never approached a girl to chat her up. "

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

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

" The jails are full of kids from kids' homes. You're 16 years old, and you're out on the street. How you going to fend for yourself at 16 if you've not had an education? You're going to turn to crime. "

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

" You're never going to improve on a Michael Jackson song if you cover it. "

" Some of the kids who discovered me from my 'F.E.A.R.' record or one of the U.N.K.L.E. tunes have said, 'I don't even like the Roses; I love your solo stuff.' I buzz off that. "

" We're all anti-royalist, anti-patriarch. Cos it's 1989. Time to get real. "

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

" I don't actually personally get off on guitar music. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "