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" Permacultures - where you use the immediate environment to grow food - should be mandatory. "
Ian Brown
Environment
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" I used to be one of those kids who couldn't keep my mouth shut. "
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" People tend to settle for the fiver rather than going for the pot of gold. "
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" Oasis are okay, but they're like The Sun: base. "
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" I love people, me, I believe in people. I love people too much. "
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" I started managing myself in October 2004, and since then, it's gone up and up. "
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" 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? "
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" 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. "
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" Everybody is a star. It's true. And if you've got a light, don't let it go out. 'Cos some people sink under. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" I don't actually personally get off on guitar music. "
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" With the Roses, I knew we were great; I felt that we would achieve something. On my own, I had no idea. "
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" I like a lot of that Chicago stuff, house music. "
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" We feel we're the only British group worth exporting since the Sex Pistols, definitely. "
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" I've got six solo albums. I've been round the world three times. I don't even think about the Roses. "
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" I thought it would be more interesting to make a musical autobiography than an actual autobiography. "
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" I went into jail with absolutely no respect whatsoever for authority, and I came out with even less. "
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Less
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" 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. "
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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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" I'd like to change the world. Eradicate poverty, racism, and sexism... all the usual things. "
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" I'd never been paid for the first Roses LP - it was 2002 before we received any royalties. "
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" We need to ban all air-freighted food. Carrots from Holland. Potatoes from Egypt. It's got to stop. "
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Potatoes
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Need
" 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. "
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" We're the most important group in the world. "
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" I can't think of anyone who's reformed for art's sake. That's why the Roses will never reform. "
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" 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. "
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" I am gentle. I think nearly everyone who makes music is sensitive - I don't care how hard they pretend they are. "
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" My wife is Mexican, and she's really influenced me: She's got an impressive collection of Mexican music. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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