Al Gallagher Quotes
You can't put a load of rockstars up on a stage and expect to wipe out global poverty. That's ludicrous.
It'll be nice to know that every gallon of petrol a Manchester United fan buys is going into our kitty.
Fame is something that is bestowed upon you because of success. Success is something you have to chase.
My son ain't going to be miserable because he's going to be the child of a rock star, the end.
I think the fact that Sir Alex Ferguson rested Howard Webb had a lot to do with the result.
Next year I hope to get a stalker or two because I don't believe you've arrived until you get a stalker.
When a lot of musicians change styles, their songwriting suffers because they want to be different.
I know there's bands that might write something that sounds like The Smiths, and they'll go, 'Oh, it sounds like The Smiths, we've got to make it sound not like The Smiths.'
When you're in a band and there's five of you, you have to accommodate five people in every song.
I go into Daunt Books in Marylebone every couple of weeks. My wife Sara demolishes books, but I only buy stuff occasionally. I like boys' things, spies and the Cold War.
Every album I've ever been involved in, on the day that it came out I believed in it.
When you're the cash cow that lays the golden goose egg, people are always going to cheer you on, whatever.
Solo artists are generally totally insane. Elton John? Slightly eccentric. George Michael? He's mad as custard.
Slade was never pretentious. It was just music to them. Pop, rock, soul....it was all the same to Slade. They wrote great songs. And, besides, I'd like to raid their wardrobe.
I'm used to people being a mile away. That suits me. It's more nerve-wracking playing in front of people who are two feet away from me.
Why is the rest of the world so overcrowded? Nobody lives in America! We're all squashed up on top of each other in London.
Look. I was a superhero in the '90s. I said so at the time. McCartney, Weller, Townshend, Richards, my first album's better than all their first albums. Even they'd admit that.
Paul McCartney, one of the best songwriters of all time, has only produced manure for the past 25 years.
Whether it's on top of a phone booth or a $200 million soundstage, it's about stories.
Through every moment on stage for the first time, I felt like I was finally right where I belonged.
Tony Blair is a brilliant politician. Unfortunately, his legacy is entwined with George W. Bush because of Iraq.
I wasn't put on this earth to amass money or personal wealth. I was put on this earth to play guitar and write songs.
Books were to my family's house like beds and stoves, the most basic items, necessary for survival
My first instinct when I write songs is not a negative one. It's something positive... Everything I've ever done has some form of hope in it, I think.
My wife would say I'm not romantic at all, but I would say that I'm the ultimate romancer because I write about... life being brilliant.
I look to challenge myself with a character that's not like myself or anything I've done before, but I certainly don't reject roles based on how often I've done them.
When you're reading the news and sometimes you just think, "How bad can things get"?
It's nice to do nice things, innit? I'm a nice person, deep down, I do nice things all the time.
I don't know what any of my tunes are about, they're just out there. I'm not good with words. I just say the first thing that comes into my head
