Noel Gallagher
Noel Gallagher
Noel Thomas David Gallagheris an English musician, singer, guitarist, and songwriter. He served as the lead guitarist, co-lead vocalist and principal songwriter of the rock band Oasis. Raised in Burnage, Manchester, Gallagher began learning guitar at the age of thirteen. After a series of odd jobs in construction, he worked for local Manchester band Inspiral Carpets as a roadie and technician in 1988. Whilst touring with them, he learned that his brother Liam Gallagher had formed a band of his...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth29 May 1967
CityLongsight, England
I don't fall into the category of tortured artist. But it's not made me more or less anything.
It's the first time I'm going to be on my own this Christmas and I'm really looking forward to not having any cards or decorations up. So I'll be in London, sit on my couch, arms folded, curtains drawn, having a drink.
I'm against people downloading music.
Women have nine months more experience than you do - nine months to prepare for being a parent.
Anything that's of any use, famous people get hold of it and take it for themselves and it gets a bad rap.
Fame is something that is bestowed upon you because of success. Success is something you have to chase.
You can't afford to think about what might have been. You just be aware of what is.
I certainly don’t believe in religion, although I find it fascinating that it’s become so powerful in the world and it’s kind of dictated morals down through societies for thousands of years, but I don’t see the hand of God at work in the world anywhere.
I think the fact that Sir Alex Ferguson rested Howard Webb had a lot to do with the result.
If everyone in the music business were brutally honest about what their intentions were then you could sort things out, but it's all smoke and mirrors.
Every song that I play I wrote by myself.
No matter how much you sit there twiddling, going, 'We're all doomed', at the end of the day people will always want to hear you play 'Creep'. Get over it.
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.
I've never been asked to do a collaboration. I guess I just don't give off that come-and-get-me vibe. I wouldn't be adverse to doing one with Coldplay or U2 - anyone who sells 50 million albums.