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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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Alex Kapranos
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
Guitarist
Musician
Singer
Songwriter
Almondsbury
Gloucestershire
Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley
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Music should be universal. My life perspective, my lifestyle - I'm not going to impose that on the people that listen to my music. That's kind of a perverse form of snobbery I like to reject.
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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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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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The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?
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It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity.
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Glasgow's not a media center. When you're there, when you're hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone, in a good way.
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Although they might not admit it, I think girls are very aware of the impact that they're having. But they never feel it themselves, and it's impossible to explain. It's like trying to tell a blind person what yellow is.
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Men behave very oddly in the company of attractive women.
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A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way.
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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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I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.
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Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.
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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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Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.
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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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There are loads of bands I'd love to produce.
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There's a character that I play onstage, and I can't let him loose in the supermarket when I'm buying my beans on toast.
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I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.
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You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.
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