Quotes from Noel Gallagher

I've grown to love California: It's the dream of every English musician to come here and work in the sunshine. To walk up Sunset Boulevard, knowing you're going to make music - that's it.

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

Frontmen come alive when they come onstage.

Chart positions are for people with manbags who get to work at 11 A.M. because they've been at a digital meeting.

I do all the work so it's only right that I should get the most money. Plus I am the most handsome.

I don't think we live in those times when great art comes out of great adversity.

My kids have got to work themselves around my life, not the other way. That's how kids become brats, if you're there staring at them all the time going, 'Are you alright?'

If I ever get to go to the moon, I'll probably just stand on the moon and go 'Hmmm, yeah…fair enough…gotta go home now.

I've got a fleet of cars and I've never had a driving license, ever.

When you're in a band and there's five of you, you have to accommodate five people in every song.

I've never been asked to do a collaboration. I guess I just don't give off that come-and-get-me vibe. I wouldn't be adverse to doing one with Coldplay or U2 - anyone who sells 50 million albums.

I like being famous. It can be a bit of a pain but you get free food in restaurants and people send you clothes.

Is it any wonder why Princes & Kings, Are clowns that caper in their sawdust rings, When ordinary people who are like you and me, Are the builders of their destiny...

All your dreams are made / When you're chained to the mirror and the razor blade

Anything that's of any use, famous people get hold of it and take it for themselves and it gets a bad rap.

These fledgling democracies in the Middle East, they're actually fighting for their freedom. And what are they rioting for in England? Leisurewear.

I don't like John Terry and I never have. He's got funny eyes and he's a cry baby. He's also a Cockney.

He's like a man with a fork, in a world of soup. (about his brother Liam)

We're not arrogant, we just believe we're the best band in the world.

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.