Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" 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. "

Related Quotes:

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

" I went into jail with absolutely no respect whatsoever for authority, and I came out with even less. "

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

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

" People tend to settle for the fiver rather than going for the pot of gold. "

" 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. "

" 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 going to improve on a Michael Jackson song if you cover it. "

" I feel like the Ryan Giggs of music. "

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

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

" We're the most important group in the world. "

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

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

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

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

" I feel like I've established myself as a music maker in my own right. "

" 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. "

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

" Putting another human being above yourself isn't healthy. I think it's capitalistic. "

" England's a small nation, and the pop music industry is built on fashion. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I've got six solo albums. I've been round the world three times. I don't even think about the Roses. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

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