Every time you write a song, you're looking for some sort of perfection, and you never quite reach it. You're always looking… — Alex Turner Copy Share Image
If anyone asks me about songwriting, I guess I'd say that you just gotta do it. — Alex Turner Copy Share Image
There have always been jokes all over our songs; I originally started writing lyrics to make my friends crack a smile, which… — Alex Turner Copy Share Image
Rock'n'roll will never go away completely because it's so fundamentally attractive. — Alex Turner Copy Share Image
I've come to recognize songwriting as something that I do, and I want to be good at that. At that craft, if… — Alex Turner Copy Share Image
Songwriters always reminded me of that kid at school who would go around with his guitar, like, 'Yeah, songwritin' man,' looking wistful.… — Alex Turner Copy Share Image
You don't meet that many people that you can talk about Roots Manuva with, but that was my favorite in school, this… — Alex Turner Copy Share Image
Sometimes, writing songs is like waiting in for deliveries. They give you a window, and your washing machine is going to show… — Alex Turner Copy Share Image
'Hatful of Hollow' and 'The Smiths' were lent to me, and they made me want to create music that might make another… — Alex Turner Copy Share Image
That rock and roll, eh? That rock and roll, it just won't go away. It might hibernate from time to time, sink… — Alex Turner Copy Share Image
I saw that something changed in terms of the way I approach writing. I don't know. Before, everything was just sort of… — Alex Turner Copy Share Image
Rock n' roll seems like it's faded away sometimes, but it will never die. — Alex Turner Copy Share Image
I think all this emphasis on sales is misguided. If you look at the Stone Roses or the Jam, you don't think… — Alex Turner Copy Share Image
I think I'm alright as a lyricist, you know? But then what will happen every couple of months or so is that… — Alex Turner Copy Share Image
I know my lyrics might be weird to some, but they're not like that to me because I know where they come… — Alex Turner Copy Share Image
The second album will be different I think. We've already got more than ten songs, because we've been writing for a long… — Alex Turner Copy Share Image
I saw that something changed in terms of the way I approach writing. I don't know. Before, everything was just sort of pieced together;… — Alex Turner Copy Share Image
Rock'n'roll will never go away completely because it's so fundamentally attractive. — Alex Turner Copy Share Image
That rock and roll, eh? That rock and roll, it just won't go away. It might hibernate from time to time, sink back into… — Alex Turner Copy Share Image
Sometimes, writing songs is like waiting in for deliveries. They give you a window, and your washing machine is going to show up, whether… — Alex Turner Copy Share Image
It was 2002, we all got guitars for Christmas and started playing in my garage that summer, rehearsed there and in a warehouse for… — Alex Turner Copy Share Image
I took the batteries out my mysticism / And put them in my thinking cap — Alex Turner Copy Share Image
We were very nervous but it were right exciting. We weren't hooligans but we knew people that were. — Alex Turner Copy Share Image
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… — Alex Turner Copy Share Image
I usually sit around with the guitar in reach and grab it when I get an idea. Sometimes it lasts five minutes, and sometimes… — Alex Turner Copy Share Image
