I'm a massive fan of the Stones, and I don't think anybody should deny them the right to carry on making music. I just wish they wouldn't wear leggings.

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

There was a euphoria in the music and the way it was delivered, and, as the crowds started to get bigger, it fed off itself until it became less about the band and more about being with all those people, jumping up and down, drunk to the music.

Progression is going forwards. Going backwards is regression. Going sideways is just gression.

My son ain't going to be miserable because he's going to be the child of a rock star, the end.

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

The fate of the African continent does not f-ing depend on a load of f-ing musicians in Hyde Park singing f-ing s-t songs to kids.