On DJs becoming the rock stars of today:
“Not in my world, they haven’t. What, Calvin fuckin’ Harris? The most boring fucking person? Fuck off, mate… I’ll tell you what they’ve become: the new accountants!”
On going solo for the first time in his career:
"There’ll be some critics who like it and some people who just put the fuckin’ boot in. That doesn’t matter. As long as the fans like it, we’ll make another record. If they don’t, there’s no point in me doin’ it."
On dealing with boredom after his post-Oasis band, Beady Eye, split up:
"Every day was just an absolute nightmare. I didn’t have anything to do. Being an early riser meant my day was done and dusted by nine o’clock in the morning. There’s only so much guitar you can play, so much shit TV you can watch.
My missus was out at work; my kids were at school. You end up just going to the pub. Boredom will kill you, man."
On whether an artist needs conflict in their lives to create:
"I do feel the best songs come out of people who have really lived, without a doubt. If everything’s rosy all the time, you’re just going to be fuckin’ James Blunt or whatever. You need a bit of shit goin’ down, you know what I mean?
But I don’t ever think, ‘I’m going to write a song about my divorce.’ If I wrote a song about Noel, it would turn out shite."
On misconceptions people have about him:
"That I’m a diva. I’m far fucking from it. Far from a diva." (OP note: says all divas everywhere)
On the relationship Liam and Noel have with their eldest brother, Paul:
"I don’t think he speaks to Noel that much because he wasn’t lighting fireworks and sending him chocolates when he released his second album – and Noel wants a marching drum beat. So I think he fell out with him there but me and Paul are good. We’re in reality. I was in a band with Noel. That wasn’t reality, so whatever relationship I’ve had with him has been in a bubble."
On calling his mom and getting updates about Noel:
"I ring her every single day; twice, three times a day. And every now and again I will go, ‘Have you heard from the little fella?’ She’ll say yeah and I’ll go, ‘Is he walkin’ yet?’ She’ll go, ‘Stop it.’ [laughs]
I think he rang the other day asking when my album is out. He’s a bit nosey about what I’m doing. He’ll come across in the press like he doesn’t even know I exist. But deep down, the guy has got the jitters, man. He’s rattled."
More on Noel:"He doesn’t like me; I don’t like him. I don’t like his mates; he doesn’t like my mates. I don’t like what he’s become; he doesn’t like what I’ve not become. It’s not happening in our world at the moment.
Oasis ain’t gettin’ back together. He’s taken a left turn and I’m still taking the path we were meant to go down. As far as I’m concerned, he’s turned into a corporate gobshite. I don’t know if I could be in a band with him and I’m sure he wouldn’t want to be in one with me either.
He knows there’d be shade over him. He knows he’d stand out like a sore fucking thumb because I am absolutely keeping it one hundred per cent real. He’d just look like some fucking Tory boy next to me."
On being blamed for Oasis breaking up:
"It pisses me off because I was, and still am, Oasis through and through. The way the band ended was very planned out. Don’t believe for one minute that it just happened like that [following a fight before a gig in Paris].
Ignition [the band’s management] and Noel Gallagher thought, ‘How the fuck do we get out of this one so we can go solo without causing an uproar? We’ll blame knob-head over there who’s having too much to drink.’"
On giving advice:
"My advice is, ‘Don’t ask for advice.’ Just live your life and see what happens. That’s what real rock’n’roll is all about, d’you know what I mean? It’s not just about how you get in the shit, it’s about how you get out of it."
Check out the full interview at the source! Is Noel shittin' himself, ONTD?
SOURCE: Huck Magazine
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