It'll be nice to know that every gallon of petrol a Manchester United fan buys is going into our kitty.

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

I have to be myself, I can't be no one else.

The Who always play 'I Can't Explain'; and we'll always play 'Wonderwall'. People ask us if we get bored of it. You can't get bored of 15,000 people shouting for 'Wonderwall'. That's better than drugs. You get a hard-on when you hear that.

America is a really delicate flower that needs a lot of attention.

I remember the 70s constantly being winter in Manchester and the Irish community in Manchester closing ranks because of the IRA bombings in Birmingham and Manchester, and you know the bin-workers' strike, all wrapped up in it... They were violent times. Violence at home and violence at football matches.

Every album I've ever been involved in, on the day that it came out I believed in it.