Alex Turner Quotes

The idea that talent is directly proportional to your trophy cabinet is one I oppose.

I can't draw. I'm good on the yo-yo, but I don't draw.

Maybe I'm too busy being yours to fall for somebody new.

Guitar music or rock n' roll or whatever you want to call it sort of goes away with trends, but it'll never go away completely. It can't die because it's so fundamentally attractive.

I like The Four Freshmen, anything with good harmonies, some Beach Boys. I like the girl groups as well, like The Dixie Cups and all that.

Television? It's a gateway to writer's block, isn't it?

I think New York is a good place to write in general because it's a grid. It's organized. You know where you are on the map. That centers you, and your imagination is perhaps freer to roam.

I know my lyrics might be weird to some, but they're not like that to me because I know where they come from - I know the secret.

'Hatful of Hollow' and 'The Smiths' were lent to me, and they made me want to create music that might make another person feel like they made me feel - to have an effect on someone.

A lot of peopletell me I'm a bit dreamy, but I like the idea of that. Of being somewhere else.

Love's not only blind but deaf.

Be cruel to me , cause I'm a fool for you.

There's something about a Gucci loafer kicking on a fuzz pedal.

Rock n' roll seems like it's faded away sometimes, but it will never die.

I'm like the Ben Affleck of crowd surfing.

I can be a woodsman if need be. I grew up very close to some forest, and I spent a lot of my formative years up and down trees, fooling around in the woods. I'm no stranger to that sort of landscape.

I'm not even sure where home is. Probably Terminal 5. There is a strange sense of calm about arriving back at Heathrow.

I get nervous about gigs sometimes, but not with records - I always get excited.

You don't meet that many people that you can talk about Roots Manuva with, but that was my favorite in school, this record of his called 'Run Come Save Me.' When I first started writing lyrics, it came from that.

There's that 15 quid we put on One Direction to win down the drain.

It was 2002, we all got guitars for Christmas and started playing in my garage that summer, rehearsed there and in a warehouse for a bit for about a year. We did our first gig in June 2003 and we played a few gigs in and around Sheffield for a bit then started doing gigs outside of Sheffield about this time last year, recording demos while all this was going on.

Every time you write a song, you're looking for some sort of perfection, and you never quite reach it. You're always looking for that extra missing piece.

If anyone asks me about songwriting, I guess I'd say that you just gotta do it.

You spend your time thinking about that and you get lost in reflection.

Sometimes, writing songs is like waiting in for deliveries. They give you a window, and your washing machine is going to show up, whether the window is the album or something you're thinking, like, 'This thing is going to come to me.'

The first time I went to New York, it was really exciting, and I thought, given half the chance, it would be nice to live there - the same with London.

Someone asked me what the key to being a good frontman was, and I think having a sense of humor about it is pretty near the top of that list. It's a very strange place to be in, and I don't take that role too seriously.

I think I'm alright as a lyricist, you know? But then what will happen every couple of months or so is that I'll hear a song I've never heard before and feel I've gone right back to square one.

I still very much appreciate the storytelling of the best rappers.