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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. "

Ian Brown

You

Sun

Live

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" I've not thought about the Stone Roses since we quit. How many LPs do I have to make to stop people talking about it? "

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

" 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. "

Ian Brown

Always

Her

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

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

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

" One thing I've always loved and rated me dad for is that, because of him, I've never seen the Queen's Christmas speech. "

Ian Brown

Loved

Queen

" If I was in the gutter, and my kids lived on the kerb, I'd go and get a job in B&Q before I'd reform the Roses. I gave everything I had to the Stone Roses and ended up hitting a brick wall. I'm never going to give anyone a foothold on that wall again. "

Ian Brown

Never

Job

" We need to ban all air-freighted food. Carrots from Holland. Potatoes from Egypt. It's got to stop. "

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

" England's a small nation, and the pop music industry is built on fashion. "

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

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

" 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. "

Ian Brown

Love

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

" You're never going to improve on a Michael Jackson song if you cover it. "

" 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. "

" Everything I've ever achieved, I've done on my terms. "

" I started managing myself in October 2004, and since then, it's gone up and up. "

Ian Brown

Myself

Then

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" Everybody is a star. It's true. And if you've got a light, don't let it go out. 'Cos some people sink under. "

" Belief outweighs talent. Self-belief's got me everything, self-belief. "

" We're against hypocrisy, lies, bigotry, show business, insincerity, phonies, and fakers. "