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.
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.
Hell is being stuck in a lift with Elton John and the Queen Mother.
Putting another human being above yourself isn't healthy. I think it's capitalistic.
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 like to change the world. Eradicate poverty, racism, and sexism... all the usual things.
Maybe if you see me begging on the streets, you might find me doing The Stone Roses the next day.
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 see The Stone Roses in '89 as Technicolor: we were all about joy and possibilities of life.
I started managing myself in October 2004, and since then, it's gone up and up.
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 doing karate when I was 11.
'Psychedelic' means mind-expanding.
Belief outweighs talent. Self-belief's got me everything, self-belief.
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 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 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 love harmonicas - old blues players like Sonny Boy Williamson.
We feel we're the only British group worth exporting since the Sex Pistols, definitely.
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.
