Quotes from Noel Gallagher

As I get older, I don't aggressively pursue songs. All the great ones just appear.

I like Chris Martin. I think he's a really great songwriter.

Maybe the songs that we sing are wrong, Maybe the dreams that we dream are gone, So bring it on home and it won't be long, It's getting better man!

I hate that Alex [James] and Damon [Albarn]. I hope they catch AIDS and die.

Next year I hope to get a stalker or two because I don't believe you've arrived until you get a stalker.

My first instinct when I write songs is not a negative one. It's something positive... Everything I've ever done has some form of hope in it, I think.

Even in the nineties, when it was mad and there were photographers all around the house, it never occurred to me to send someone else out to get cigarettes. It took me five minutes - went for a walk, gave a wave, went back inside.

I've always been into guitars... we want to put keyboards on, but keyboard players don't look cool onstage, they just keep their heads down. There has never been a cool keyboard player, apart from Elton John.

I don't think people need to know what colour socks I'm wearing today; I don't think people need to know what shower gel I'm using. There's too much information in the world, and there's no magic or mystery anymore.

We shouldn't need riot police at schools.

I don't have the genetic make-up of a frontman, but I'm learning how to do it.

I go into Daunt Books in Marylebone every couple of weeks. My wife Sara demolishes books, but I only buy stuff occasionally. I like boys' things, spies and the Cold War.

Women have nine months more experience than you do - nine months to prepare for being a parent.

Rock n' roll to me is all about freedom of thought and to be whatever you want to be.

Producers like to record all the drums first, then they do the bass, then all the guitars, so you're constantly moving from one song to another.

I'll do one eventually as life's too short and none of us is getting any younger. I'd like to make one while I still look good and before I look like Phil Collins, which, eventually, I will.

In business, you can have one massive success that earns $50 million overnight, and that's it. You're successful. End of story. But in the music business, you have to keep on doing it.

Fame is something that is bestowed upon you because of success. Success is something you have to chase.

I first came to London when I was 22 and working as a roadie. Having watched the 'News At Ten' all my life, I thought Big Ben was going to be massive, but I was underwhelmed.

Kids and family life are only as good as your wife, and she's amazing.

My wife would say I'm not romantic at all, but I would say that I'm the ultimate romancer because I write about... life being brilliant.

If I were in the Beatles, I'd be a good George Harrison.

You can't put a load of rockstars up on a stage and expect to wipe out global poverty. That's ludicrous.

American sports are quite masculine. And football - although it's still played by men all over the world - football compared to American football is quite feminine in its artistry. And there's no padding. It's America's loss, though.