Alex Turner Quotes (17 Quotes)

I feel like I should just flip out and do something crazy. It's boring when people tell me I'm really well grounded. I feel a little bit sensible I don't want to be that.

You don't need to be in everyone's face all the time to appreciate what you do.

The second album will be different I think. We've already got more than ten songs, because we've been writing for a long time. The last song that went on the (first) album - 'You Probably Couldn't See For The Lights But You Were Looking Straight At Me' - was written last May.

Hopefully the tabloid thing has peaked. It doesn't seem to be as big (to us) as what people might think it is. Maybe we are immune to all of it because of everything that's happened. Maybe in 10 years we'll realize what it is.

We want to do things our way, and people think it's arrogance, so it's inevitable some people will get tired of us.

It'll never be the same as it is here. It can never be the same, but we can have a good crack at it.

We should not be afraid of change, we should return to the old ideas.

We live in Sheffield and we write about the things we see here. What else is there to write about

Last year at this time, we were driving around playing shows near Sheffield. Now, it feels like we'll at least have a go at it.

It were amazing. That day it was like, 'Sky News wants to talk to you'.

We're getting a lot of (new) music together. It's all about our adventures at the moment. We don't see Sheffield much anymore it's a closed book. We're moving on and thinking about different things.

If it doesn't cure cancer or solve inner city poverty, it'll be viewed as a disaster.

We were very nervous but it were right exciting. We weren't hooligans but we knew people that were.

It'll never be the same as it is here. We'd been playing shows all over and it's been building up really slowly. We didn't even know we were doing it when we were doing it. It can never be the same, but we can have a good crack at it. We'll play the shows and if people like (them), great. If not ...

We did the triple, but in all honesty, I suppose we're supposed to display some gratitude. We are grateful because, you know, voted for by the people and all that, we're very happy about that but who else was going to be the best British band at the moment, you know

It's about so much more than technology or whatever people think it was.

I think all this emphasis on sales is misguided. If you look at the Stone Roses or the Jam, you don't think about how many records they sold but what great music they made. That's what is.