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

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" 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. "

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

" I gave it up three weeks before my black belt, foolishly. I got to my third brown belt and must have trained for 18 months but never went for it. I was nearly 18 and got this thing in my head about, ' Who are they to grade me?' Trying to be a rebel when I should have done it. It's my only regret, not going for a black belt. "

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

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" We started out to finish groups like U2 - that was what it was all about. "

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" 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. "

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

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

" I wasn't on stage to be worshipped or for people to look up to me. I was with the crowd. "

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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. "

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

" 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. "