Oh the things he says... um, well, read for yourself!

"I think we all decided to snog each other that night, me, Damon and Graham. Damon was going, 'You gotta do it, Alex! You gotta do it!' So I snogged both of them. Male bonding. I like girls; maybe I'm just scared of exploring my sexuality. I don't know. I would have thought I would have shagged Graham by now, or at least got a hand job off him or something, but there always seems to be something better to do."

"That's why you write, play music or make art, so you feel less shit about everything."

"I've got incredibly bad breath, very smelly feet, a headache, and everybody wants to know me."

"Women are better than men, and that's why we like them so much."

"Everybody is there for a reason and we all think its our band, Graham thinks it's his band, Damon thinks it's his band, but it's my band."

"I never studied an instrument at school. It was very boring doing music, it was all grammar and conversation. So what I say to all you kids out there is - get your Oasis records and your Blur records and your Eternal and East17 records, and take them into school and say, 'This is industry - teach me this, this is what I want to know about.'"

"We're far too busy to have ambitions. Ambitions are the perogative of the bored."

"If I remember my first kiss? Do you mean on the mouth..or down there? Oh, yes, I remember them both"

"The world is run by cynical maniacs."

"England's all right, you know? We discovered light- emitting plastics."

"When my flat was burgled, I hadn't noticed. There was a keyboard missing and...some other stuff. But I couldn't bring myself to care. I mean, I never give beggars money in the street or anything so, y'know, fair's fair..."

"You may have been jumping up and down, I was destroying the fabric of the music industry."

"It's the hardest thing that you have to do in your life, is decide what you want to do... for some reason it's just assumed that it's something that you know, but it's actually a really very difficult thing. So if there's anything you like doing, it's good to sort of... it's good to do it, really."

"The problem with Germans...no offense or anything but they're all Damon - they all want to be in charge!"

"When we want credibility we'll suck our cheeks and tummies in."

"I haven't any Freudian reasons to make art, as far as I can tell."

"My teacher has recently been sent to prison for being a buttock fondler, which may explain why I never took to music lessons."

"What do I think of Krautrock? It's a bit tedious, isn't it? A lot of it doesn't sound like music. It sounds like maths."

"Drugs are just boring. And drug bores are the worst bores, possibly only beaten by drum bores and travel bores. You can have a lot more fun with booze because it's legal."

"You have no respect for me. That's why you're here. But none of that matters because I know that you fancy me."

"I fucking hate Sonic Youth."

"We'll always be friends. I like the idea of seeing each other being really old and doddery."

"Bands aren't just about music, they're about everything you care about when you're sixteen- good haircuts, your mates, sex, smoking, drinking and just looking good."

"That's how it should be, kids! Go and get drunk with your heroes, snog them, and then tell them to 'Fuck off'!"

"Ah, yes, Monday evening. Very nice. Brings out a more wreckless class of drinker."

"The roistering lounge lizard? Yeah. I can't think of anything else to do."

"I think I'm the most hated, apart from Damon."

"You can't go wrong really. Hangovers take on many forms, but they can be extremely creative. You take no shit when you've got a hangover. Because you feel so crap, you know exactly what you want. And music does have that anodyne quality, it's a sort of analgesic, and if you're feeling like absolute grim death, making beautiful music can assuage your self loathing."

"We've always been too friendly, too clever, and too good looking for a lot of people."

"There's lots of opportunities to enjoy yourself. I'm quite a light-hearted person."

"Graham's always been the person in the band that I've felt the closest to. It's funny all the stuff in the papers about us hating each other. We certainly do, sometimes. They just start focusing on all the nasty stuff which is inevitable really."

"I'm the George Harrison of the group. I don't do backing vocals because I prefer to look cool and smoke a fag."

"Playing a guitar is about as mysterious as using a typewriter. It's the same thing, only your hands are the other way up."

"I've got better things to do than buy fucking shoes."

"I'm completely extravagant and decadent. I Iove going to Tesco's and just buying things like asparagus - I'm just extravagant with vegetables, not cars."

"Ours is the sort of Englishness that a war wouldn't change. It's got something to do with a latitude and a history."

"Damon's probably quite grown up, but Graham and I have probably got a long, long way to go before we're grown up."

"You can't catch anything off girls sucking your dick."

"Ultra-normality?... Hmmm, I don't know really... maybe it was to do with... oh bollocks, who cares?... do you want a shag?"

"I think I probably aspire to being bone idle."

"It's four people who all think it's their band, trying to make their own record, and that's what makes it... that's what makes it rock, kids."

"My sister lives a quiet life in Bournemouth. Like Damon's sister, she's also an artist. Having a younger sister is like having kids of your own. I remember when my mum sat down and said, 'You're having a little sister-what do you want to call her?' and I immediately said 'Deborah'. So Deborah it was. Good job I didn't say Myra. Or Adrian. That would have been silly."

"I had an omelette and chips. Cheese omelette. I always have cheese omelette and chips."

"Japan...it's nice to be the tallest person for 6000 miles...it's the only place where everyone wears dark glasses."

"What you've got to do is look in your cupboard, see what's there, put it all in a big pot, sprinkle some grated cheese on top and bung it in the oven. That's what pop music is all about."

"I love the touring. I can't think of anything better to do, really, than see the whole world, and play my guitar and drink beer. I'm just trying to get the best pizza in each town. And talk to the prettiest girls."

"Princess Di! She's ace. She's class. And if she's looking for a classy man, look no further."

"Borrowed money. Borrowed talent. Borrowed quotes. Borrowed time...at a good rate of interest." (about Suede)

"First we all wanted to be like Graham, later we all wanted to become monks."

"It's become my surname, 'from Blur'."

"I don't think of myself as a bumbling British person."

"I think it is good to listen to some unusual things but I find I've been listening to some really old, boring stuff, really normal stuff like Roy Orbison. I love, I really love Roy Orbison at the moment."

"I think we kind of missed punk. Dave had a mohawk, and I think that was kind of a mistake. I think 'Blue Monday' by New Order, I just wanted to be in New Order, so I bought bass and worked out how to do all the bass bits. Hey I could be in New Order now!"

"Graham thinks he can fly, Damon says he can fly, and Dave's got an airplane. I got me feet on the ground."

"If someone's horrible to you, be really nice to them. Then they'll feel bad."

"My granddad was an old popper. He was a vinyl enthusiast. He's got loads of old big band records that I got when he died, but I sold a lot of them when we were really poor."

"A good reason why it could be called Parklife is because it could be when you're trying to park your car... but you can't."

"Talent, genius, BOLLOCKS! There's no such thing as talent, no such thing as genius. Some people just want it more, which is twice as important as being good at it."

"I'm the bass player. I play the bass. I'm the third most important person in the studio."

"At college, I told this lecturer my name was Alexander 'cos they had a really plummy way of saying "Alexander". I thought it was right royal and anyway Steve sounds all 'muscles' and 'motor'."

Question: "Do you ever suggest anything to Graham?" Answer: "Absolutely not. Oh dear no. He'd shoot me."

"Well, we dance with death everyday, don't we? You can't be running around being frightened...all the time. It's no good."

"Emotion isn't about standing on mountains going, "I'VE GOT A BROKEN HEART!' If you're going to sing about your heart, you might as well rhyme it with fart, as far as I'm concerned."

Damon: "People throw such bizarre things on stage." Alex: "I get hats and fags and bras in Japan." Damon: "You don't get bras in Japan." Alex: "You want to come over my side, mate."

"I didn't really notice the record that we were making. We just go in and play really hard. You go and do it and then you go, 'What on Earth have we done?' That's what you always feel."

"We're genre-sluts, really. We're all good players, and I don't see why we should have to confine ourselves into playing in one particular style. The Beatles never did. It's whatever floats the boat, really."

"I'm not that much of a shag athlete, I'm really not."

"I don't like arguing. I aspire to agree with everybody. That way I don't get beaten up... it's Damon who likes arguing."

"Music is merely the temporary escape from the tyranny of conscious thought"

"We are gorgeous! Europe! Let's go!"

"The good thing about being in a band is that you, you know, you form your own identity within that band. Bands are just gangs, really, aren't they?"

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