Quotes By Alex Kapranos

Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.

Ideally, musicians belong outside the Establishment. When they cross that line, it's like something in them has died.

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.

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.'

Being in a band didn't buy me my beans on toast!

Boho to me is a first-year student who's just discovered the tie-dye shop.

Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.

I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.

There's a difference between expectations and aspirations.

Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.

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.

It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.

There are loads of bands I'd love to produce.

A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way.

You really only understand whether a song's good or not when you properly play it out in public for the first time.

I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.

People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.

If success had come along when I was 17 it would either have killed me or sent me completely mad.

The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?

It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity.

Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.

I want to make music that will make the blood surge in your veins, music that will get people up and dance.

The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.

I didn't grasp the basic principle of being a promoter, which was: Put on music but also generate an income. I was on the dole most of the time.

I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.

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.

No matter what you do, if you're trying to create something new, your environment has a massive impact on you.

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.

Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.

Men behave very oddly in the company of attractive women.