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" I don't have the genetic make up of a frontman, but I'm learning how to do it. "

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" I've never understood musicians who don't enjoy doing promotional interviews. I just can't believe it. I always think, 'Your life must have been so brilliant before you were in a band.' "

" 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? "

" Oasis were the last great, traditional rock-n'-roll band. We came along before the Internet so, if you wanted to see us, you had to be there. It makes me feel like a righteous old man. "

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

" Anything that's of any use, famous people get hold of it and take it for themselves and it gets a bad rap. "

" These fledgling democracies in the Middle East, they're actually fighting for their freedom. And what are they rioting for in England? Leisurewear. "

" I absolutely loved being famous. It was all great, up until the point when it wasn't. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" Making records should be fun. "

" 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.' "

" Music is a thing that changes people's lives. It has the capacity to make young people's lives better. "

" America is incredibly professional and corporate. "

" I don't think we live in those times when great art comes out of great adversity. "

" Chart positions are for people with manbags who get to work at 11 A.M. because they've been at a digital meeting. "

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

" 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'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, apart from Elton John. "

" I don't live to work; I work to live. "

" Every album I've ever been involved in, on the day that it came out I believed in it. "

" Tony Blair is a brilliant politician. Unfortunately, his legacy is entwined with George W. Bush because of Iraq. "

" I've never been asked to do a collaboration. I guess I just don't give off that come-and-get-me vibe. I wouldn't be adverse to doing one with Coldplay or U2 - anyone who sells 50 million albums. "

" I don't much like 'Wonderwall,' but the effect that song has on people, I can't deny it. "

" 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. "

" I don't fall into the category of tortured artist. But it's not made me more or less anything. "