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

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

" 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? "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I wrote a lot of lyrics in prison, but they'd all be like, 'Crawls upon the shoulders, hatred in the eyes.' I wrote about 50 songs in there that were all about jail. I've come out and thought, 'I've only served eight weeks; I can't really write a concept album about jail.' "

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

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

" We believe that anyone can do anything, and everyone's a star. And that's evident from the shows we do. It just feels like a whole bunch of people in a room celebrating something - maybe just being alive. "

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

" 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 Stone Roses, I always thought we'd be successful because we had some great songs. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I feel like the Ryan Giggs of music. "

" 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'd like to change the world. Eradicate poverty, racism, and sexism... all the usual things. "

" People have to realise you don't help African children singing along to 60-year-old men playing their tunes from 40 years ago. "

" 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. "

" I'd love to see the world without liquor for a week. "

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