Alex Kapranos

I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.

— Alex Kapranos

A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different…

— Alex Kapranos

The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?

— Alex Kapranos

I want to make music that will make the blood surge in your veins, music that will get people up and dance.

— Alex Kapranos

No matter what you do, if you're trying to create something new, your environment has a massive impact on you.

— Alex Kapranos

Just because you can leap off a drum kit doing a scissors kick while hitting a chord, people expect you to be…

— Alex Kapranos

I find American football quite ridiculous generally. I don't understand it. It looks like a lot of guys dressed up as spacemen…

— Alex Kapranos

You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.

— Alex Kapranos

Ideally, musicians belong outside the Establishment. When they cross that line, it's like something in them has died.

— Alex Kapranos

Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.

— Alex Kapranos

It's easy to be lazy when there's food lying around backstage or there's a fast-food joint a couple blocks away. But if…

— Alex Kapranos

There are loads of bands I'd love to produce.

— Alex Kapranos

Anyone can play an instrument if you show them how to move their limbs, lips or fingers the right way. It's irrelevant.…

— Alex Kapranos

“I'm not here to make waffles!”

— Alex Kapranos

The Beatles were huge for me, ... I used to jump around the room to the red album, the one with all…

— Alex Kapranos

Why play a chord when you can play one note?

— Alex Kapranos

Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.

— Alex Kapranos

I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.

— Alex Kapranos

For me upward social mobility is possible through talent and hard work and is a glowing endorsement of the benefits of living…

— Alex Kapranos

Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.

— Alex Kapranos

I have always been fascinated by the concept of the villain and the hero being in one person.

— Alex Kapranos

Music should be universal. My life perspective, my lifestyle - I'm not going to impose that on the people that listen to…

— Alex Kapranos

It's fine to indulge yourself so long as you don't try and foist it on the rest of the world.

— Alex Kapranos

Of course, there's a certain type of person who feels that anything which becomes mainstream has to be rejected immediately. And that's…

— Alex Kapranos

I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.

— Alex Kapranos