I can't have white roses. They symbolize death.

By 1993, the Stone Roses had become this huge, beautiful cruise ship just floating about in the middle of nowhere with no captain.

Who were the biggest acts in the world in 1987? Guns N' Roses and Metallica. I shamelessly pandered to surfers and skateboarders, and in pictures from then, you'll see Slash and those guys wearing N.W.A stuff. If they thought it was cool, people in Kansas and Wyoming would buy it. That's how we broached the subject.

There's no gift more classic and more beautiful than roses.

You know those adages about smelling the roses and chasing butterflies? The markets are my butterflies and my roses.

I can't pass a plant stall without feeling I must have one. But my greatest extravagance, I suppose, is roses. We've got masses.

Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.

Life is not always going to be roses and rainbows. You are going to have uncomfortable moments. It's what we do with those moments that is going to count and determine our destiny.

I'd never been paid for the first Roses LP - it was 2002 before we received any royalties.

The only thing I want to be satisfied in life is to do one reunion tour with Guns N' Roses. I would like to finish what I started with them.

A personal highlight was probably when we got a No. 1 in the U.K. and when the album went to No. 1 in America. The top four that week was us, Adele, Guns N' Roses and Bruce Springsteen. It was ridiculous seeing those names there. Being the first band from the U.K. and Ireland to go to America and debut at No. 1 is just unbelievable.

Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.

We want to give you the roses when you're dead. That's how human beings think. I try not to think like a human.

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

I would play with Guns n' Roses anytime.

Paris works so hard. I always say, 'Paris, you also have to stop now and again and smell the roses.'

Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.

I'm big into the Stone Roses.

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

Flowers die and wine gets consumed. Both are lovely. I appreciate both. Wine and roses. I actually had someone bring me a lobe of foie gras once.