Ian Brown quotes:

I'm the only Red in our family! You know my father, my brother, my brother-in-law, my 14-year-old niece and two of my uncles are all City season ticket holders. So I'm gonna say 5-0 to United!

What does it feel like to represent a newspaper that used to support Adolf Hitler? And supports the banker Kabbalists that are ruining the world? Did you vote Tory?

We've got no hate for each other [in the band Stone Roses], and we never have.

It takes time for people to fall in love with you....but it's inevitable

It's Denmark 3 Denmark 0...

You'd be sick if you saw my adidas collection...you would be physically sick if you saw it. I'm not gonna say where it is.

Manchester's got everything except a beach.

I think I'm like The Beatles - I think each one I've done is better than the last one. And hopefully I'll never make a Let It Be.

No-one ever votes Tory, do they?

We'll keep writing and if it hits our standards we'll go with it. We're not here to destroy anything. It's as precious to us as it is for someone who's followed us for years.

Knight saved it with his back arm

There's a lot of good rappers in England at the moment. There's a lot of good dance acts. A lot of good, young guitar acts. I think a lot of groups came from that dole culture of the late 80's/early 90's - it's not as easy now. I think there's a dearth of working class bands.

If you put your cameras down you might be able to live in the moment. You have a memory there of something you've never lived.

I think we're great. I think we've still got it. And I think we've got something to give to people. And I think in times like this we can uplift people. We're doing it for ourselves, I'm not gonna lie. We wanted to announce our reunion the day after the riots, but it was important to play together before we announced it.

You have a gift that can make you rich. Everyone does.

Love resolves. Love. Love's deeper than the hurt.

The money's always been on the table. We could have took that money any time we wanted - every year, two, three times a year we've had offers, all the way down the line.

I've parked my solo thing in a lay-by and jumped in another vehicle and I'm in that now.

The technical brilliance of Lang Lang and the musical genius to create a masterpiece on the spot.

...a tale of too many cooks in the defence.