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. Ian Brown Read Quote
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. Ian Brown Read Quote
When the ravens leave the Tower, England shall fall, they say. We want to be there shooting the ravens. Ian Brown Read Quote
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. Ian Brown Read Quote
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. Ian Brown Read Quote
