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" I've grown to love California: It's the dream of every English musician to come here and work in the sunshine. To walk up Sunset Boulevard, knowing you're going to make music - that's it. "

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Noel Gallagher

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" 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? "

" I do think my old fella wasn't much of a... I don't remember him ever being a 'dad' dad. He was too busy working. It was a hard life, man. "

" 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. "

" My kids have got to work themselves around my life, not the other way. That's how kids become brats, if you're there staring at them all the time going, 'Are you alright?' "

" I go into Daunt Books in Marylebone every couple of weeks. My wife Sara demolishes books, but I only buy stuff occasionally. I like boys' things, spies and the Cold War. "

Noel Gallagher

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

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

" Producers like to record all the drums first, then they do the bass, then all the guitars, so you're constantly moving from one song to another. "

" 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? "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" You have to make the effort with children. You can't have them thinking that I reckon I'm special, otherwise they'll start thinking they're special. I want them to feel normal for as long as possible because God knows they'll reach an age when they'll be told they're not. "

" American sports are quite masculine. And football - although it's still played by men all over the world - football compared to American football is quite feminine in its artistry. And there's no padding. It's America's loss, though. "

" My wife would say I'm not romantic at all, but I would say that I'm the ultimate romancer because I write about... life being brilliant. "

" Great music is in the ear of the beholder. "

" Making records should be fun. "

" 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. "

" We shouldn't need riot police at schools. "

" Every song that I play I wrote by myself. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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