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

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

" One person might perceive me as godlike, and the next might think I'm a northern thug. I don't think I've done myself any favours... but I swear I've not had a proper fight since I was 14. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" People want to adulate people. "

" I feel like the Roses were a great group, but I never wanted to try to do it again. I knew I couldn't get a band that would compare to the Roses, that would have an impact like the Roses. "

" When I was 9, I was into T. Rex, Gary Glitter, and Alice Cooper. I knew The Beatles because my nan introduced me to them, but T. Rex was the first band I got into myself. I got 'Metal Guru' a few months after hearing 'Children of the Revolution' in Pwllheli in North Wales at a market. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Everything I've ever achieved, I've done on my terms. "

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

" 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 need to ban all air-freighted food. Carrots from Holland. Potatoes from Egypt. It's got to stop. "

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

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

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

" Maybe if you see me begging on the streets, you might find me doing The Stone Roses the next day. "

" I'd like to write songs for other people, see things from a different perspective. I'd like to watch things from the dugout instead of the pitch. "

" 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. "

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

" I started doing karate when I was 11. "