Noel Gallagher

“I can make going to the dry-cleaners last an entire day, and the dry cleaners might be 150 yards from my front door. You might find it hard to believe, but I am bone-idle lazy.”

“Why is the rest of the world so overcrowded? Nobody lives in America! We're all squashed up on top of each other in London.”

“When I'm doing music and I'm on the road, I love it. But once I'm home, it's very difficult to go back out on the road.”

“People say I seem very negative about new music - well, if somebody asks me what I think of Keane, I'll tell 'em. I don't like 'em. I'll obviously take it a step too far and grossly insult the keyboard player's mam or summat, but I'm afraid that's just me.”

“We shouldn't need riot police at schools.”

“I love the Bee Gees, but only the pre-disco stuff. From '64 to '69, I've got all their albums.”

“There's no reason, ever, to be late. Or early.”

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

“There's enough music in the world. There are enough rock stars.”

“I started off as many fathers do. I enjoyed the good bits, but I was wary of the responsibility. But now I love being a dad.”

“Take the time to make some sense for what you wanna say,And cast your words away upon the waves.Sail them home with acquiesce on a ship of hope today,And as they land upon the shore,Tell them not to fear no more.I'm not saying right is wrong,It's up to us to make the best of all the things that come our way.Cos' everything that's been has past,The answers in the looking glass.There's four and twenty million doorsOn life's endless corridor,So say it loud and sing it proud today.”

“I've got my own style on the guitar, sure, and I play rhythm in a certain way, and I use certain inflections. People have said that to me, and I understand it.”

“I'm not interested in making money. It's just that with my talent, I'm cursed with it.”

“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.”

“I know there's bands that might write something that sounds like The Smiths, and they'll go, 'Oh, it sounds like The Smiths, we've got to make it sound not like The Smiths.'”

“Frontmen come alive when they come onstage.”

“The charts are only relevant when you're top of them!”

“You don't have to be great to be successful. Look at Phil Collins.”

“I'm not technically proficient enough to attempt all kinds of music.”

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