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I just wanted to do something that would freak people out. That's the best thing to do.

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Alex Turner
Age: 38
Born: 1986
Born: January 6
Guitarist
Musician
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Sheffield
England
Alexander David Turner
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People
Freak
Best
Wanted
Thing
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There's that 15 quid we put on One Direction to win down the drain.
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You spend your time thinking about that and you get lost in reflection.
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Every time you write a song, you're looking for some sort of perfection, and you never quite reach it. You're always looking for that extra missing piece.
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There is always that one band that comes along when you are 14 or 15 years old that manages to hit you in just the right way and changes your whole perception of things.
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Sometimes writing songs is like waiting for deliveries.
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Love's not only blind but deaf.
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I saw that something changed in terms of the way I approach writing. I don't know. Before, everything was just sort of pieced together and more and more nowadays I'll have complete songs - chords, lyrics, a melody - and we'll apply to those songs what we feel is required. That has happened much more on Humbug album than on any of the others.
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There have always been jokes all over our songs I originally started writing lyrics to make my friends crack a smile, which is difficult.
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You can't worry what people think.
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I've come to recognize songwriting as something that I do, and I want to be good at that. At that craft, if you like. I want to practice it.
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A lot of peopletell me I'm a bit dreamy, but I like the idea of that. Of being somewhere else.
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Rock'n'roll will never go away completely because it's so fundamentally attractive.
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I think each thing in a way acts as a stepping - stone for whatever the next thing is.
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Maybe I'm too busy being yours to fall for somebody new.
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I took the batteries out my mysticism / And put them in my thinking cap
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What came first the chicken or the dickhead?
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Songwriters always reminded me of that kid at school who would go around with his guitar, like, Yeah, songwritin' man, looking wistful. That wasn't me - those kinds of people put me off.
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I can't draw. I'm good on the yo-yo, but I don't draw.
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I still miss the days when a haircut was just a haircut. It was only your mates you had to face. Now there's a whole industry centred around people analysing your 'look'. I just cannot understand how anyone could get so worked up by... hair.
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