Ian Brown

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

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.

You're never going to improve on a Michael Jackson song if you cover it.

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