Liam Gallagher

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’m into the girls fancying me and stuff, mad for it. Get a bit worried if boys started fancying me, definitely. I’ve got nothing against gays . . . as long as they don’t pinch me on the bum or whatever.

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

I need them, need them to give me a kick up the arse. Otherwise I’d just be sat-in getting fat, counting me money. It’s good people living on your doorstep and looking through your bins. Gives you energy.

I was walking along and this chair came flying past me, and another, and another, and I thought, man, is this gonna be a good night.

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

Noel Gallagher

We’re not arrogant, we just believe we’re the best band in the world.

All I ever wanted to do was make a record. Here’s what you do: you pick up your guitar, you rip a few people’s tunes off, you swap them round a bit, get your brother in the band, punch his head in every now and again, and it sells. I’m a lucky bastard. I’m probably the single most lucky man in the world — apart from our Liam.

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

I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for my Mum. I know I’ve got Irish blood because I wake up everyday with a hangover.

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.

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.

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

They should be shot. [on the Backstreet Boys ]

I’m not like John Lennon, who thought he was the great Almighty. I just think I’m John Lennon.

When we started off, we wanted the girls, the cocaine, the fur coats. It wasn’t like it was an act; it was almost like working-class people winning the pools. We went bananas.