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" It is a fact that everyone's got a limited run in music - but who's to say how long that run lasts? I used to think that there would be no way I'd still be in music when I was 40. I used to think anyone who was 40 was an old man, and they probably shouldn't be doing it anymore. "

Ian Brown

Think

Music

Man

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Then

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

" My sister bought me the Koran in 1990. I always thought the stories in it were magical. "

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Always

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

" I liked him, that Jarvis Cocker. I like the fact he was androgynous, he could appeal to everybody. He wasn't just a lad pretending to be a thug. "

" 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. "

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Love

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

Ian Brown

Big

Side

" 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. "

" Every time I do interviews, they ask me about the same things - poverty, war, and the power of the church. "

" 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. "

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

" When the ravens leave the Tower, England shall fall, they say. We want to be there shooting the ravens. "

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

Ian Brown

February

Shopping

" Hell is being stuck in a lift with Elton John and the Queen Mother. "

" I've always said prayers. "

" 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. "

" Just because I'm a successful singer who's loved and has been loved for years doesn't mean I'm sitting behind electric gates in my own fantasy land. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 started doing karate when I was 11. "

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

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

" One thing I've always loved and rated me dad for is that, because of him, I've never seen the Queen's Christmas speech. "

Ian Brown

Loved

Queen

" 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. "

" Oasis are okay, but they're like The Sun: base. "