Quotes

Discipline? I don't know the meaning of the word.

Everyone knows that if you've got a brother, you're going to fight

[on John Lennon's famous quote that The Beatles were bigger than Jesus] Lennon was right. And we are bigger than Jesus. We will be as big as The Beatles, if not bigger.

I don't hate Chris Martin. I don't know him, know what I mean? I just thinks he's a bit giddy. He ought to calm down, he isn't gonna save the world.

People are always going on about 'Oh, you've failed in America.' I've never failed at anything in my entire life. I got out of the bedroom when I was a young fucking lad, and I'm in a great fucking band. And now we're playing at Madison Square Garden.

Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on-stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it.

I suppose I do get sad, but not for too long. I just look in the mirror and go, 'What a fucking good-looking fuck you are.' And then I brighten up.

There's Elvis (Elvis Presley) and me. I couldn't say which of the two is best.

Pete Doherty needs a slap, and the sooner he gets it, the better.

I don't know what any of my songs are about. I don't sit down to write about anything. They're about whatever you want. I don't pick subjects. I just start.

I knew something was around the corner, but I didn't know what. I just knew I didn't want to work.

[on La Roux] No way, mate. She's got man hands.

[on his brother Noel] I'd to time for him. I love him. Me and him are cool. If anyone stepped on his toes, I'd cut them off.

I refuse to dance. And I can't dance anyway. I'm not in a band for that.

[on taking on Blur] We said it from Day One, we were the ones who were real, man. We're just honest, man, and we're not a bunch of women.

In Caracas, top gig. Sat in me room in silence as my TV doesn't work. Not allowed to leave the hotel for fear of being tickled to death.

I'm a better singer than him [Noel]. I'm the man, man.

I am a tender, beautiful and loving guy that happens to slap a photographer now and then because they get in my way.

[on his relationship with Noel these days] I haven't got one.

I don't hate them [Coldplay], I don't wish they had accidents. I think their fans are boring and ugly and don't look like they're having a good time.

You look at [Alex Kapranos] and the singer from Right Said Fred. It's the same person! He's just gone on the Atkins diet and grown his hair.