Hell is being stuck in a lift with Elton John and the Queen Mother.
Ian Brown
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 started doing karate when I was 11.
I'd like to change the world. Eradicate poverty, racism, and sexism... all the usual things.
Putting another human being above yourself isn't healthy. I think it's capitalistic.
I love people, me, I believe in people. I love people too much.
Belief outweighs talent. Self-belief's got me everything, self-belief.
I give thanks for everything that's ever happened to me and for everything I've got.
I went to a friend's 40th in Manchester, and there was a karaoke machine, and no one was having a go. My mate said, 'No one's singing because you're in the room.' I said, 'Who am I, Frank Sinatra?' They made me sing flipping 'My Star' to a backing track that sounded like '80s Roxy Music. It was pretty embarrassing, but I did it.
Getting a grey beard's not cool.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I went into jail with absolutely no respect whatsoever for authority, and I came out with even less.
People have to realise you don't help African children singing along to 60-year-old men playing their tunes from 40 years ago.
My wife is Mexican, and she's really influenced me: She's got an impressive collection of Mexican music.
When the ravens leave the Tower, England shall fall, they say. We want to be there shooting the ravens.
We need to ban all air-freighted food. Carrots from Holland. Potatoes from Egypt. It's got to stop.
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 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'm lucky enough to be one of them music makers who can do a dance festie or a rock festie.
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?
Since we were kids, we grow up believing that astronauts are heroes - that to go up in a rocket is a heroic thing. These guys are bigger than movie stars. To me, it's... all a well-dressed-up lie, basically. There's billions spent on rockets up there, and there's millions starving down here. It don't make sense to me.
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.
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.
Stardom's transitory. Nothing really changes except people's attitudes.
I started managing myself in October 2004, and since then, it's gone up and up.
I was skint, and I had to move back to my mum and dad's house, back into the room I shared with my brother when I was a kid. I kept getting people on the streets telling me that they loved me; it didn't mean anything to me because I was still borrowing tenners off my pensioner father to go and get some chicken.
I love harmonicas - old blues players like Sonny Boy Williamson.
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.
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.
People tend to settle for the fiver rather than going for the pot of gold.
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.
You're never going to improve on a Michael Jackson song if you cover it.
I spent the summer of '88 indoors, writing 'Shoot You Down,' 'Bye Bye Badman,' and 'Don't Stop.'
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.
I used to be one of those kids who couldn't keep my mouth shut.
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.
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.
We started out to finish groups like U2 - that was what it was all about.
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.
The Roses should have made it as the biggest band since The Beatles, but we didn't.
Maybe if you see me begging on the streets, you might find me doing The Stone Roses the next day.
Northern soul was huge in Manchester in the '70s and '80s; I went to a lot of all-nighters.
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.
