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

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

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

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

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

" If you want to call me a Karaoke King, I'll take it. "

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

" I was really into punk when I was about 14. "

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

" I spent the summer of '88 indoors, writing 'Shoot You Down,' 'Bye Bye Badman,' and 'Don't Stop.' "

" You're never going to improve on a Michael Jackson song if you cover it. "

" 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. "

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

" I feel like the Ryan Giggs of music. "

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

" 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'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. "

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

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

" 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? "

" I never wanted to be a pop singer, but I always watched pop programs and knew I could do better than the people I was seeing. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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'd never been paid for the first Roses LP - it was 2002 before we received any royalties. "

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

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

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

" I started doing karate when I was 11. "

" People want to adulate people. "