There are periods where you think, "What am I doing?" or "What am I doing it for?"; that's a more scary question. "I've made s---loads of money, I've left my mark in music, why am I still doing this?," and it takes a while to answer that question.

I don't live to work; I work to live.

Paul McCartney, one of the best songwriters of all time, has only produced manure for the past 25 years.

Oasis can't be summed up in one word. I could do a sentence: Boys from council estate made it very, very big.

Anything that's of any use, famous people get hold of it and take it for themselves and it gets a bad rap.

When I was 16 I'd watch 'The Godfather,' but I didn't think, 'Right, I'm going to go down the barber's and get some protection money off him.'

When a lot of musicians change styles, their songwriting suffers because they want to be different.