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
gateway
Television? It's a gateway to writer's block, isn't it?
confines
Sometimes I don't want to be in the confines of what a band seems to provide.
close fooling formative grew sort spent stranger
I can be a woodsman if need be. I grew up very close to some forest, and I spent a lot of my formative years up and down trees, fooling around in the woods. I'm no stranger to that sort of landscape.
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.
chance given half nice time
The first time I went to New York, it was really exciting, and I thought, given half the chance, it would be nice to live there - the same with London.
directly
The idea that talent is directly proportional to your trophy cabinet is one I oppose.