153 Quotes by Ian Brown

People have to realise you don't help African children singing along to 60-year-old men playing their tunes from 40 years ago.

We wrote 'Stellify' for Rihanna, but as we got to the end of writing it, I thought, 'You know what? I'm gonna keep this for myself. We'll give her another one.' She'd have probably sung it better, but it is too good for me not to do it.

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.

I love karaoke - I usually do Blondie's 'Heart Of Glass,' or 'Try A Little Tenderness.'

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

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 give thanks for everything that's ever happened to me and for everything I've got.

Everything I've ever achieved, I've done on my terms.

Honestly, going solo is the second best thing that's ever happened to me after my kids.