Ian Brown

“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.”

“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'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.”

“I'd love to see the world without liquor for a week.”

“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.”

“I'd never been paid for the first Roses LP - it was 2002 before we received any royalties.”

“I feel like the Ryan Giggs of music.”

“With the Roses, I knew we were great; I felt that we would achieve something. On my own, I had no idea.”

“Even me mum can't tell me what to do.”

“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.”

“People tend to settle for the fiver rather than going for the pot of gold.”

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

“I'm lucky enough to be one of them music makers who can do a dance festie or a rock festie.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Every time I do interviews, they ask me about the same things - poverty, war, and the power of the church.”

“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.”

“Even on songs we've got that are about a girl, there's always something there that's a call to insurrection.”

“'Psychedelic' means mind-expanding.”