153 Quotes by 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 used to be one of those kids who couldn't keep my mouth shut.

I started managing myself in October 2004, and since then, it's gone up and up.

My sister bought me the Koran in 1990. I always thought the stories in it were magical.

I've always said prayers.

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.

Some of the kids who discovered me from my 'F.E.A.R.' record or one of the U.N.K.L.E. tunes have said, 'I don't even like the Roses; I love your solo stuff.' I buzz off that.

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

I can't think of anyone who's reformed for art's sake. That's why the Roses will never reform.