Noel Gallagher

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

“I'm a little bit of a control freak when it comes to my music, unfortunately.”

“If I can give you any advice, it's this: every hour that you spend sat on the couch doing nothing, put it to good use, because when you have kids, an hour is like a lifetime.”

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

“Solo artists are generally totally insane. Elton John? Slightly eccentric. George Michael? He's mad as custard.”

“I'm against people downloading music.”

“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, apar...”

“Twenty years from now, will we listen to Lady Gaga? No. She might think she is making a stand for the freaks and the weirdos. But they're not going to have any decent music to play, are they...”

“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.”

“I don't think people need to know what colour socks I'm wearing today; I don't think people need to know what shower gel I'm using. There's too much information in the world, and there's no...”

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

“You'll find people who rib you about their age are petrified about getting old. It doesn't bother me.”

“When you're the cash cow that lays the golden goose egg, people are always going to cheer you on, whatever.”

“As I get older, I don't aggressively pursue songs. All the great ones just appear.”

“I'm a happy-go-lucky character. I'm not that miserable. But I can never let anyone into my world.”

“I don't like being on television when I'm playing live. I don't even like being on Jools Holland or any of them programs.”

“For the record, I Iike Jay-Z. That's my opinion.”

“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.”

“To be quite honest, John Lennon had questionable politics. There was a flip side. He was all peace and love, but he was a very violent character.”

“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 t...”