Alex Turner
Alex Turner
Alexander David "Alex" Turneris an English musician. He is the lead vocalist, guitarist, and principal songwriter of the English rock band Arctic Monkeys. The only child of two teachers, Turner was raised in the Sheffield suburb of High Green. Turner has also recorded with his side-project The Last Shadow Puppets and as a solo artist for the Submarinemovie soundtrack...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth6 January 1986
CityHigh Green, England
bit boring flip people sensible
I feel like I should just flip out and do something crazy. It's boring when people tell me I'm really well grounded. I feel a little bit sensible ? I don't want to be that.
good
I can't draw. I'm good on the yo-yo, but I don't draw.
arrogance inevitable people tired
We want to do things our way, and people think it's arrogance, so it's inevitable some people will get tired of us.
knew nervous people
We were very nervous but it were right exciting. We weren't hooligans but we knew people that were.
news talk wants
It were amazing. That day it was like, 'Sky News wants to talk to you'.
building crack good people playing shows
It'll never be the same as it is here. We'd been playing shows all over and it's been building up really slowly. We didn't even know we were doing it when we were doing it. It can never be the same, but we can have a good crack at it. We'll play the shows and if people like (them), great. If not ...
crack good
It'll never be the same as it is here. It can never be the same, but we can have a good crack at it.
aggressive environment ground quite tightly unnatural wound
It's a very unnatural environment to be in, up on a stage. So you put up defenses to hide. Like looking at the ground with your hair in your eyes, or being tightly wound and quite aggressive and uncooperative, as I used to do.
people technology whatever
It's about so much more than technology or whatever people think it was.
adventures anymore closed moving music thinking
We're getting a lot of (new) music together. It's all about our adventures at the moment. We don't see Sheffield much anymore ? it's a closed book. We're moving on and thinking about different things.
thinking batteries caps
I took the batteries out my mysticism / And put them in my thinking cap
rocks going-away rock-n-roll
Rock'n'roll will never go away completely because it's so fundamentally attractive.
song writing perfection
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.
school kids men
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.