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I spent the summer of '88 indoors, writing 'Shoot You Down,' 'Bye Bye Badman,' and 'Don't Stop.'
Maybe if you see me begging on the streets, you might find me doing The Stone Roses the next day.
The technical brilliance of Lang Lang and the musical genius to create a masterpiece on the spot.
We need to ban all air-freighted food. Carrots from Holland. Potatoes from Egypt. It's got to stop.
I've got six solo albums. I've been round the world three times. I don't even think about the Roses.
I thought it would be more interesting to make a musical autobiography than an actual autobiography.
I went into jail with absolutely no respect whatsoever for authority, and I came out with even less.
When the ravens leave the Tower, England shall fall, they say. We want to be there shooting the ravens.
With the Roses, I knew we were great; I felt that we would achieve something. On my own, I had no idea.
At primary school, I thought I was George Best. Then I got to secondary school, and it was more serious.
My wife is Mexican, and she's really influenced me: She's got an impressive collection of Mexican music.
Every time I do interviews, they ask me about the same things - poverty, war, and the power of the church.
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.
Even on songs we've got that are about a girl, there's always something there that's a call to insurrection.
When The Stone Roses first came out, the early reviews called me 'simian.' I had to look that up at the time.
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'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'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.
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 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.
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.
You'd be sick if you saw my adidas collection...you would be physically sick if you saw it. I'm not gonna say where it is.
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.
If you put your cameras down you might be able to live in the moment. You have a memory there of something you've never lived.
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'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.
I think I'm like The Beatles - I think each one I've done is better than the last one. And hopefully I'll never make a Let It Be.
By 1993, the Stone Roses had become this huge, beautiful cruise ship just floating about in the middle of nowhere with no captain.
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.
I liked him, that Jarvis Cocker. I like the fact he was androgynous, he could appeal to everybody. He wasn't just a lad pretending to be a thug.
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.
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.
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 always loved Oasis because when they came out, they did express that they loved us, and they saw that we did it, and they thought they could do it, too.
What does it feel like to represent a newspaper that used to support Adolf Hitler? And supports the banker Kabbalists that are ruining the world? Did you vote Tory?
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.
The money's always been on the table. We could have took that money any time we wanted - every year, two, three times a year we've had offers, all the way down the line.
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 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.
We'll keep writing and if it hits our standards we'll go with it. We're not here to destroy anything. It's as precious to us as it is for someone who's followed us for years.
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.
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 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.
One person might perceive me as godlike, and the next might think I'm a northern thug. I don't think I've done myself any favours... but I swear I've not had a proper fight since I was 14.
I'm the only Red in our family! You know my father, my brother, my brother-in-law, my 14-year-old niece and two of my uncles are all City season ticket holders. So I'm gonna say 5-0 to United!
The jails are full of kids from kids' homes. You're 16 years old, and you're out on the street. How you going to fend for yourself at 16 if you've not had an education? You're going to turn to crime.
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.
People in Russia learned English off the Beatles. People in Japan learned English off the Stone Roses. Noel Gallagher says music can't change the world, but the Roses made him want to start a group, so it changed his world.
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.