"It was very unorthodox.. and about as straight as a dog's back leg."
Mani on the set-up between Gareth Evans and the band.
"I left because John and Ian had decided that their loyalties lay with the manager (Evans) and not with me."
Andy Couzens on his departure from the band.
"I think there was a chemistry between them, between all the band. They'd bounce off and take the piss out of each other like you wouldn't believe."
Steve Atherton on the relationship between the Roses.
"Now Ian Brown as we all know sings like a dog. He's got a terrible voice and when The Stone Roses were at that height, one of the great miracles was that it didn't matter that Ian Brown was the worst singer in the world ever."
Steve Sutherland (Editorial Director, NME) on Ian Brown.
"Me, Ian and Reni would be out down the Hacienda E'd up, slaughtered drunk, John would be in his bedroom with his log rhythm tables out working some funky guitar part down.. he was a complete workaholic… and an all-round good guy."
Mani on John Squire
"We just tried to get away from putting pictures of four neds off a council estate on the front sleeve of a record."
Mani explains the Jackson Pollock artwork.
"Here's these drunken hooligans y'know ? Every kind of bad thing, every kind of vice that can be thrown at them, y'know ? They're sex mad, drug mad, drunk mad, everything. They're just crazy. But they weren't. But they kind of rode all that and said 'well if that's what people want to think….', y'know ?"
John Leckie on the publicity surrounding the band.
"They weren't massive drug takers ..... I don't think."
Steve Atherton on the band.
".. knocked on the door, he's (Paul Birch) come to the door, gets a big 5 litre tin of blue paint over him. Then went over his bird as well who was getting a bit mouthy - not clever."
Mani on the famous paint-splattering incident.
"It would be funny if it wasn't sick."
Paul Birch on being splattered with paint.
"Second Coming does stand up, more years down the line. People are now going 'yeah we get the point.'"
Mani on the change of critical opinion towards Second Coming.
"The last time I saw him (Gareth Evans) was him screeching off in his Range Rover with Ian and Reni hanging off the back of it trying to punch him through the window man ! ....Bye bye Gareth."
Mani on the departure of Gareth Evans.
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"The Roses were those four members (Ian, Reni, Mani and John) and after Reni left there wasn't like a proper Roses thing anymore. It had come to its end I think as it was, and it's best to have a good looking corpse and go early rather than drag it out."
Steve Atherton on the effect Reni's loss had on the band.