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I am gentle. I think nearly everyone who makes music is sensitive - I don't care how hard they pretend they are.
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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.
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I spent the summer of '88 indoors, writing 'Shoot You Down,' 'Bye Bye Badman,' and 'Don't Stop.'
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We need to ban all air-freighted food. Carrots from Holland. Potatoes from Egypt. It's got to stop.
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With the Stone Roses, I always thought we'd be successful because we had some great songs.
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We wrote 'Stellify' for Rihanna, but as we got to the end of writing it, I thought, 'You know what? I'm gonna keep this for myself. We'll give her another one.' She'd have probably sung it better, but it is too good for me not to do it.
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I can't think of anyone who's reformed for art's sake. That's why the Roses will never reform.
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When The Stone Roses first came out, the early reviews called me 'simian.' I had to look that up at the time.
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When the ravens leave the Tower, England shall fall, they say. We want to be there shooting the ravens.
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The Beatles were great; we know that. But we were trying to do a new thing. Why do we need to recreate the Sixties?
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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.
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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.
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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?
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Northern soul was huge in Manchester in the '70s and '80s; I went to a lot of all-nighters.
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I give thanks for everything that's ever happened to me and for everything I've got.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm lucky enough to be one of them music makers who can do a dance festie or a rock festie.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We feel we're the only British group worth exporting since the Sex Pistols, definitely.
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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.'
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I started managing myself in October 2004, and since then, it's gone up and up.
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I see The Stone Roses in '89 as Technicolor: we were all about joy and possibilities of life.
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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.
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Maybe if you see me begging on the streets, you might find me doing The Stone Roses the next day.
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I'd like to change the world. Eradicate poverty, racism, and sexism... all the usual things.
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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.
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