A biography for Noel Gallagherhasn’t been written yet.
“If everyone in the music business were brutally honest about what their intentions were then you could sort things out, but it's all smoke and mirrors.”
“America is incredibly professional and corporate.”
“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.”
“I love the NFL. I don't have a team per se, but I'm into it.”
“With every song that I write, I compare it to the Beatles. The thing is, they only got there before me. If I'd been born at the same time as John Lennon, I'd have been up there.”
“Every song that I play I wrote by myself.”
“When a lot of musicians change styles, their songwriting suffers because they want to be different.”
“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.”
“Oasis can't be summed up in one word. I could do a sentence: Boys from council estate made it very, very big.”
“I don't dislike rappers or hip-hop or people who like it. I went to the Def Jam tour in Manchester in the '80s when rap was inspirational. Public Enemy were awesome. But it's all about status and bling now, and it doesn't say anything to me.”
“When you're in a band and there's five of you, you have to accommodate five people in every song.”
“I have 3 kids and a cat and a busy, noisy house. I get more time to relax when I'm working.”
“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.”
“You've just got to trust your instincts and realize that you can't please all the people all the time. You've got to please yourself ultimately in the end.”
“Rock n' roll to me is all about freedom of thought and to be whatever you want to be.”
“There's nothing good on the news. You're not telling me CNN is all cats in trees, are you? Nothing can be that good if Piers Morgan is in it, you know what I mean?”
“When I was 16 I'd watch 'The Godfather,' but I didn't think, 'Right, I'm going to go down the barber's and get some protection money off him.'”
“(on learning Westlife had beaten Oasis, U2 and The Beatles in an album chart battle in November 2006): There is no God.”
“Great music is in the ear of the beholder.”
“Under Thatcher, who ruled us with an iron rod, great art was made. Amazing designers and musicians. Acid house was born. Very colourful and progressive.”