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• ‟ When I was 9, I was into T. Rex, Gary Glitter, and Alice Cooper. I knew The Beatles because my nan introduced me to them, but T. Rex was the first band I got into myself. I got 'Metal Guru' a few months after hearing 'Children of the Revolution' in Pwllheli in North Wales at a market.

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• ‟ I love people, me, I believe in people. I love people too much.

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• ‟ Belief outweighs talent. Self-belief's got me everything, self-belief.

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• ‟ 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.

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

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• ‟ Since we were kids, we grow up believing that astronauts are heroes - that to go up in a rocket is a heroic thing. These guys are bigger than movie stars. To me, it's... all a well-dressed-up lie, basically. There's billions spent on rockets up there, and there's millions starving down here. It don't make sense to me.

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• ‟ Even me mum can't tell me what to do.

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• ‟ Maybe if you see me begging on the streets, you might find me doing The Stone Roses the next day.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ I've never chatted up a girl in me life. I've always let girls come to me. I've never approached a girl to chat her up.

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• ‟ When The Stone Roses first came out, the early reviews called me 'simian.' I had to look that up at the time.

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• ‟ I went to a friend's 40th in Manchester, and there was a karaoke machine, and no one was having a go. My mate said, 'No one's singing because you're in the room.' I said, 'Who am I, Frank Sinatra?' They made me sing flipping 'My Star' to a backing track that sounded like '80s Roxy Music. It was pretty embarrassing, but I did it.

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

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