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

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

" 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. "

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

" I went to a friend's 40th in Manchester, and there was a karaoke machine, and no one was having a go. My mate said, 'No one's singing because you're in the room.' I said, 'Who am I, Frank Sinatra?' They made me sing flipping 'My Star' to a backing track that sounded like '80s Roxy Music. It was pretty embarrassing, but I did it. "

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

" 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 see The Stone Roses in '89 as Technicolor: we were all about joy and possibilities of life. "

" I went into jail with absolutely no respect whatsoever for authority, and I came out with even less. "

" They've had a hard life, the Oasis brothers. They've done really well to be semi-normal. It's always sad when your dirty linen is brought out in public. "

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

" One person might perceive me as godlike, and the next might think I'm a northern thug. I don't think I've done myself any favours... but I swear I've not had a proper fight since I was 14. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I feel like I've established myself as a music maker in my own right. "

" 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. "

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

" It's a horrible name, Coldplay. It doesn't conjure up any positive thoughts. "