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I've always said prayers.
No-one ever votes Tory, do they?
Getting a grey beard's not cool.
Knight saved it with his back arm
'Psychedelic' means mind-expanding.
I feel like the Ryan Giggs of music.
I started doing karate when I was 11.
Manchester's got everything except a beach.
...a tale of too many cooks in the defence.
You're never alone on the dole in Manchester.
Oasis are okay, but they're like The Sun: base.
I like a lot of that Chicago stuff, house music.
Love resolves. Love. Love's deeper than the hurt.
I'd love to see the world without liquor for a week.
Everything I've ever achieved, I've done on my terms.
You have a gift that can make you rich. Everyone does.
I actually was able to give up shopping in February '99.
I used to be one of those kids who couldn't keep my mouth shut.
I love harmonicas - old blues players like Sonny Boy Williamson.
Hell is being stuck in a lift with Elton John and the Queen Mother.
I feel like I've established myself as a music maker in my own right.
Belief outweighs talent. Self-belief's got me everything, self-belief.
Stardom's transitory. Nothing really changes except people's attitudes.
You're never going to improve on a Michael Jackson song if you cover it.
It takes time for people to fall in love with you....but it’s inevitable
We started out to finish groups like U2 - that was what it was all about.
England's a small nation, and the pop music industry is built on fashion.
People tend to settle for the fiver rather than going for the pot of gold.
It's a horrible name, Coldplay. It doesn't conjure up any positive thoughts.
We've got no hate for each other [in the band Stone Roses], and we never have.
I started managing myself in October 2004, and since then, it's gone up and up.
We should be growing carrots up the side of the Empire State Building or Big Ben.
The Roses should have made it as the biggest band since The Beatles, but we didn't.
Putting another human being above yourself isn't healthy. I think it's capitalistic.
I give thanks for everything that's ever happened to me and for everything I've got.
I love karaoke - I usually do Blondie's 'Heart Of Glass,' or 'Try A Little Tenderness.'
Honestly, going solo is the second best thing that's ever happened to me after my kids.
We feel we're the only British group worth exporting since the Sex Pistols, definitely.
My sister bought me the Koran in 1990. I always thought the stories in it were magical.
I wasn't on stage to be worshipped or for people to look up to me. I was with the crowd.
We're against hypocrisy, lies, bigotry, show business, insincerity, phonies, and fakers.
I've parked my solo thing in a lay-by and jumped in another vehicle and I'm in that now.
With the Stone Roses, I always thought we'd be successful because we had some great songs.
I'd never been paid for the first Roses LP - it was 2002 before we received any royalties.
Northern soul was huge in Manchester in the '70s and '80s; I went to a lot of all-nighters.
Permacultures - where you use the immediate environment to grow food - should be mandatory.
I'm lucky enough to be one of them music makers who can do a dance festie or a rock festie.
I'd like to change the world. Eradicate poverty, racism, and sexism... all the usual things.
I see The Stone Roses in '89 as Technicolor: we were all about joy and possibilities of life.
I can't think of anyone who's reformed for art's sake. That's why the Roses will never reform.