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

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" 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. "

" We wrote 'Stellify' for Rihanna, but as we got to the end of writing it, I thought, 'You know what? I'm gonna keep this for myself. We'll give her another one.' She'd have probably sung it better, but it is too good for me not to do it. "

" With the Roses, I knew we were great; I felt that we would achieve something. On my own, I had no idea. "

" 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. "

" People want to adulate people. "

" When The Stone Roses first came out, the early reviews called me 'simian.' I had to look that up at the time. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 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.' "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "