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Name: Noel Gallagher Band: Oasis Position Guitar, Vocals Date Of Birth 29 May 1967 Place Of Birth Longsight, Manchester, UK Sex Male Official Site: Oasis Fan Site: O Fansite Fan Site: Cyber Oasis Fan Site: Oasis Fan Site: Fan Site Fan Site: Fan Site

-"We're not arrogant, we just think we're the best band in the world"


-"American's are crazy. They have this fascination with throwing shoes on stage. I've been to a lot of shows in me life, some good and some bad. But, I was never moved to take off me shoes and throw it at the lead singer."


-"I do all the work so it's only right that I should get the most money. Plus I am the most handsome"


-"If I ever get to go to the moon, I'll probably just stand on the moon and go 'Hmmm, yeah...fair enough...gotta go home now.'


-"Guigs is a hippie, a wanna be hippie...he smokes pot and reads books"


-"Best act today. Tomorrow. The day after that. And the day after that."


-"Useless"


-"Anyway, we go in and start recording in October. We're gonna do the single and have it out in January, and around then we'll start recording the album. All depending wether we split up in the studio and the usual bollocks, walk-outs and bust ups and trying to get Bonehead out of the boozer."


-"If you're not in it to be bigger than the Beatles, it's just a hobby."


-"It's all part of a big spiritual riddle to which only I have the answer"


-"My main concern before going on stage is, What frame of mind is Our Kid going to be in? Will he get fucked off and walk off, which he is perfectly capable of doing. He was annoyed when somebody threw a rock at him at a gig, the bloke responsible was lucky cos if we hadn't been having such a good time we'd have jumped in and put him in intensive care. We're not the psychopaths we're made out to be but you don't take shit do you?"


-"I love playing music. It's a gift that was given to me by whoever dishes out these talents to people and as long as I believe I have something valid to put out as a piece of music then I'll keep doing it. As soon as I feel it's not, I'll stop and do something else like open a chippy or work in a butcher's shop."


-"Americans are crazy. They have this facination with throwing their shoes on stage. I've been to a lot shows in me life, some good and some bad. But I was never moved to take off me shoes and throw it at the lead singer."


-"Fucking Wankers! This one's for all the people at the back"


-"Let me try to do the interview... So tell me, what's life like being a transvestite?"


-"Eat more vegetables."


-"This guy came up to me from some band and he said that 'Man, I'd hate to be you right now, no privacy at all' and I was thinking, 'Sure thing man, I have a fucking Rolls Royce, a million dollars in the bank, a fucking mansion and my own jet and you think you'd feel sorry for me? What are you? I'd hate to be you, broke as all hell living in the dole.' "


-"Yet again, I was right! It's a pisser being right all the time -- it bores the tits off me!"


-"In Newcastle some geezer jumped up on the stage and punched me in the eye. It went off pretty bad; there was a riot at the gig. You always get that in England. There's always someone in the front giving you the finger. Did they queue up for six hours just to come down and call me a wanker? I don't understand that mentality. It's very strange."


-"Has-beens shouldn't present awards to gonna-bees...(drifting off) Well, I guess I should talk a little longer, so: I'm Rich, You're Not!"


-"It's like a game of baseball. The press hold the ball, but you hold the bat. So they toss you the ball now and again, and it's up to you to knock it for a home run and run around the stadium."


-"Jarvis is a star! I mean, all he did was get up on stage and get his belly out, but in England people thought it was so shocking. It's not as if he cracked on the head with a baseball bat -- which is what I woulda fuckin' done if I'd gone up there."


-"They say, "How's it goin'?" and I say "Great." And then they go, "Tch, you know what, man? I'd really hate to be in your position, man. I mean, your life must be really hard." And I'm thinking, what? You sell two fuckin' records in Gloucester, and you're telling me you'd hate to be in my position? I've got a fuckin' Rolls-Royce and a fuckin' bastard mansion, and an airplane and you'd hate to be me? Ha, not as much as I'd fuckin' hate to be you, you daft cunt living in a fuckin' squat with your bird and a fuckin' dog! Yeah, being a multi-millionaire is a big, bad pain in the ass, man you wouldn't want to wish that on anybody."


-"Nothing bothers me more than when groups like Pearl Jam and Nirvana whine and moan and complain about life and being famous. Let me tell you, being famous is great! The feeling when someone asks you for an autograph, unbelieveable! I just think Americans are tired of people telling them how crap their lives are. I think when people listen to our music, we tell them how good their lives could be. I guess I just can't understand the thoughts of Eddie Vedder or that whole bit... I mean, lad, if you hate your job so much, why don't you fuckin' go work at a car wash or McDonald's or something?"


-"When we get time off from the band, everyone else goes on 'oliday, but I just start writing. I went away once over the summer, and our management wouldn't let me take a guitar with me they locked 'em all up. They're afraid of me burning myself out."


-"We're not the psychopaths we're made out to be but you don't take shit do you?"


-"I was as loud as Our Kid is...I did the same things he does every night."


-"If you don't want to be the biggest band in the world, you may as well pack it in."


-"I told Our Kid the band was shite, but he definitely had something as a frontman. Then I said you either let me write everything, control everything, and make all the decisions, or forget it."


-"I went to Paul McCartney's daughter Stella's party and who should open the door but the man himself. He was dead cool. There were all these questions I wanted to ask him but I settled on, Do you watch Brookside?"


-"It is hard to be modest at times like these so I won't even try...you are all shite!"


-"Next year I hope to get a stalker or two because I don't belive you've arrived until you get a stalker."


-"Barrie is the biggest hole in the Western Hemisphere"


-"ehh...yes. Them places where, 'got any barbers where you come from boy? You boy's like country music?' Out there in, you know, them weird little truck stops you get to at like 6 in theh morning, everyon's on the bus going, 'fuck, I'm not going in there'. You know what I mean, he he, the chance of me going in there, there's old geezers with snakeskin baseball caps on backwards, chewing tobacco *pttt*. 'Where in the hell you'd get that accent from?'"


-"I do all the work so it's only right that I should get the most money. Plus I am the most handsome"


-"We're not arrogant, we just think we're the best band in the world."


-"Those plate glass windows are just saying, 'throw a chair through me'"


          -Noel Gallagher, Oasis, Lead Guitar & Vocals & E-Bow, 29 May 1967