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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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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" I'd love to see the world without liquor for a week. "

" Oasis are okay, but they're like The Sun: base. "

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

" I love karaoke - I usually do Blondie's 'Heart Of Glass,' or 'Try A Little Tenderness.' "

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

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

" I don't actually personally get off on guitar music. "

" We're the most important group in the world. "

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

" It is a fact that everyone's got a limited run in music - but who's to say how long that run lasts? I used to think that there would be no way I'd still be in music when I was 40. I used to think anyone who was 40 was an old man, and they probably shouldn't be doing it anymore. "

" I always loved Oasis because when they came out, they did express that they loved us, and they saw that we did it, and they thought they could do it, too. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" 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. "