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If I was a fan of someone as a teenager, then it's OK for me to feel completely in awe when I meet them.

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Alex Kapranos
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
Guitarist
Musician
Singer
Songwriter
Almondsbury
Gloucestershire
Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley
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Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.
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It's fine to indulge yourself so long as you don't try and foist it on the rest of the world.
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I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.
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I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.
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Cinema, which is influenced by every single part of life, is direct and reaches you immediately. And writing - the best writing is complex ideas communicated concisely. And music - if it's a good tune, make sure people can bloody hear it!
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If success had come along when I was 17 it would either have killed me or sent me completely mad.
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I really want it to have an impact on the world. I want to be in a town on the other side of the world, and somebody walks up and says, 'That music you made in Glasgow, I listened to it every day, and it moved me.'
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Of course, there's a certain type of person who feels that anything which becomes mainstream has to be rejected immediately. And that's part of the indie-alternative snobbery and hierarchy and elitism.
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I want to change and try new ideas - allowing your sonic identity to evolve in your music and not being afraid of that. You see musicians hit upon something that works, and then go, Let's keep doing that for 10 years. And that idea kind of terrifies me a little bit. It becomes like a day job then.
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Men behave very oddly in the company of attractive women.
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It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.
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Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.
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The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.
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I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.
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Just because you can leap off a drum kit doing a scissors kick while hitting a chord, people expect you to be an extrovert socially. But I'm not always comfortable with the idea of small talk at a party.
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Why play a chord when you can play one note?
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Maybe 'Can't Stop Feeling' and 'Turn It On' we'll just release as singles. It's a thing The Beatles used to do which I really loved, the idea of releasing something as a single completely on its own.
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