Oasis can’t be summed up in one word. I could do a sentence: Boys from council estate made it very, very big.
I’ve never felt like I had anything important to say.
I can make going to the dry-cleaners last an entire day, and the dry cleaners might be 150 yards from my front door. You might find it hard to believe, but I am bone-idle lazy.
Some might say they don’t believe in heaven. Go and tell it to the man who lives in hell.
You don’t have to be great to be successful. Look at Phil Collins.
I first came to London when I was 22 and working as a roadie. Having watched the ‘News At Ten’ all my life, I thought Big Ben was going to be massive, but I was underwhelmed.
Frontmen come alive when they come onstage.
Rock ‘n’ roll is about music. Music. Music. Music. It’s not about you, it’s not about me, it’s not about Oasis. It’s about the tunes.
I don’t think people need to know what colour socks I’m wearing today; I don’t think people need to know what shower gel I’m using. There’s too much information in the world, and there’s no magic or mystery anymore.
We were able to provide housing to all who need it. We’ve had incredibly generous offers from alumni for housing.
College football today is one of the last great strongholds of genuine old-fashioned American hypocrisy.
The charts are only relevant when you’re top of them!
I’ve grown to love California: It’s the dream of every English musician to come here and work in the sunshine. To walk up Sunset Boulevard, knowing you’re going to make music – that’s it.
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.
You and I are gonna live forever.
If I were in the Beatles, I’d be a good George Harrison.
Gone are the days when Virgin Records was owned by Richard Branson, a fan of music. Now they’re all owned by some guy who bought it off some guy who bought it off some guy who wants a return on his investment.
Twenty years from now, will we listen to Lady Gaga? No. She might think she is making a stand for the freaks and the weirdos. But they’re not going to have any decent music to play, are they?
We dragged English guitar music out of the gutter.
I don’t like being on television when I’m playing live. I don’t even like being on Jools Holland or any of them programs.