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

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.'

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 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.

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

'Psychedelic' means mind-expanding.

I started doing karate when I was 11.

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 started managing myself in October 2004, and since then, it's gone up and up.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Putting another human being above yourself isn't healthy. I think it's capitalistic.

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

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 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 think, if anything, it would be fun to play at house parties or in Japan.

Hunx was more punk, and Seth Bogart is more pop and plastic.

As soon as the makeup comes on, I transform myself. I like being an entertainer and putting on a show.

Falling off stages or making out with gross guys isn't something I'm very fond of.

I don't understand why you have to be one boring thing your whole life. Why can't you just do whatever you want all the time?

I have extreme ADD, and I'm into all kinds of stuff.