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" 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. "

Ian Brown

Roses

People

You

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Want

" I love harmonicas - old blues players like Sonny Boy Williamson. "

" Every time I do interviews, they ask me about the same things - poverty, war, and the power of the church. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

Ian Brown

Sister

Always

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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 I was 9, I was into T. Rex, Gary Glitter, and Alice Cooper. I knew The Beatles because my nan introduced me to them, but T. Rex was the first band I got into myself. I got 'Metal Guru' a few months after hearing 'Children of the Revolution' in Pwllheli in North Wales at a market. "

Ian Brown

Children

Myself

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 was skint, and I had to move back to my mum and dad's house, back into the room I shared with my brother when I was a kid. I kept getting people on the streets telling me that they loved me; it didn't mean anything to me because I was still borrowing tenners off my pensioner father to go and get some chicken. "

" Honestly, going solo is the second best thing that's ever happened to me after my kids. "

Ian Brown

Second

Solo

" I thought it would be more interesting to make a musical autobiography than an actual autobiography. "

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

" I used to be one of those kids who couldn't keep my mouth shut. "

" 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. "

" 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