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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. "

Ian Brown

End

Myself

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

" My biggest fault is that I give people too much credit. Then they let you down. I'm 99.9 per cent perfect - that's how I look at myself and, therefore, everybody else too. "

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

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

Ian Brown

Positive

Thoughts

" 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. "

" I love people, me, I believe in people. I love people too much. "

" 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. "

Ian Brown

See

Watch

" 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. "

" I was really into punk when I was about 14. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

Ian Brown

Big

Side

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

Ian Brown

Look

Stage

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I can't think of anyone who's reformed for art's sake. That's why the Roses will never reform. "

" 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. "

Ian Brown

Friend

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. "

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

Ian Brown

Take

Want

" I actually was able to give up shopping in February '99. "

Ian Brown

February

Shopping

" 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. "

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

Ian Brown

Sister

Always

" Maybe if you see me begging on the streets, you might find me doing The Stone Roses the next day. "

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