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" When The Stone Roses first came out, the early reviews called me 'simian.' I had to look that up at the time. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" You'll never find a Manchester band slagging off another Manchester band, but within each Manchester band, people will rip each other apart: Mondays, Smiths, New Order, Roses, Oasis. "

" I feel like the Ryan Giggs of music. "

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

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

" I started doing karate when I was 11. "

" I gave it up three weeks before my black belt, foolishly. I got to my third brown belt and must have trained for 18 months but never went for it. I was nearly 18 and got this thing in my head about, ' Who are they to grade me?' Trying to be a rebel when I should have done it. It's my only regret, not going for a black belt. "

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

" I am gentle. I think nearly everyone who makes music is sensitive - I don't care how hard they pretend they are. "

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

" I'm only really good at making music. I wasn't convinced when I started out, but then I heard the first Stone Roses' LP. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" Some of the kids who discovered me from my 'F.E.A.R.' record or one of the U.N.K.L.E. tunes have said, 'I don't even like the Roses; I love your solo stuff.' I buzz off that. "

" I was jailed for using words that I still dispute. Anyone who's ever met me will tell you that I'm not a violent person. "

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

" I've always said prayers. "

" 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. "

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