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

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" Even on songs we've got that are about a girl, there's always something there that's a call to insurrection. "

" 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. "

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

" I give thanks for everything that's ever happened to me and for everything I've got. "

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

" 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. "

" You're never alone on the dole in Manchester. "

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

" I started doing karate when I was 11. "

" 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. "

" Getting a grey beard's not cool. "

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

" Honestly, going solo is the second best thing that's ever happened to me after my kids. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The Beatles were great; we know that. But we were trying to do a new thing. Why do we need to recreate the Sixties? "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I wrote a lot of lyrics in prison, but they'd all be like, 'Crawls upon the shoulders, hatred in the eyes.' I wrote about 50 songs in there that were all about jail. I've come out and thought, 'I've only served eight weeks; I can't really write a concept album about jail.' "

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

" 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. "

" I thought it would be more interesting to make a musical autobiography than an actual autobiography. "