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" We believe that anyone can do anything, and everyone's a star. And that's evident from the shows we do. It just feels like a whole bunch of people in a room celebrating something - maybe just being alive. "

Ian Brown

People

Alive

Believe

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Feel

Music

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Never

Job

" 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. "

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See

Watch

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

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People

Want

" Every time I do interviews, they ask me about the same things - poverty, war, and the power of the church. "

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Look

Stage

" We're against hypocrisy, lies, bigotry, show business, insincerity, phonies, and fakers. "

" One thing I've always loved and rated me dad for is that, because of him, I've never seen the Queen's Christmas speech. "

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Loved

Queen

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

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

" I'd like to change the world. Eradicate poverty, racism, and sexism... all the usual things. "

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

" At primary school, I thought I was George Best. Then I got to secondary school, and it was more serious. "

Ian Brown

Thought

Serious

" I'm lucky enough to be one of them music makers who can do a dance festie or a rock festie. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I started managing myself in October 2004, and since then, it's gone up and up. "

Ian Brown

Myself

Then

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

" 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 liked him, that Jarvis Cocker. I like the fact he was androgynous, he could appeal to everybody. He wasn't just a lad pretending to be a thug. "

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

" 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. "

Ian Brown

Always

Her