Pop PhilosophyI think with U2, each man’s got a job and he understands it and he’s not jealous of the next man’s job. When they mention the Stone Roses, they just pin up my picture. I think my guy probably wanted a little more because he did the artwork, perhaps he thought he wasn’t getting enough attention. - – Ian Brown on John Squire and the Stone Roses days (www.filter-mag.com) 

WITH Garbage on a hiatus of undetermined length, front-woman Shirley Manson has begun work on her first solo album. The artiste tells Billboard.com she recently completed a track with Brit film composer David Arnold, with whom she collaborated on the theme song for the 1999 James Bond film The World is Not Enough. Manson says she has no timetable for completing the project and is more interested in enjoying herself. The artiste acknowledges Garbage fans were confused by the mixed messages surrounding the start of the band’s hiatus last fall, but insists, “We're still together, absolutely. We all feel like we want to go off and do a variety of things,” she adds.