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
arrogance inevitable people tired
We want to do things our way, and people think it's arrogance, so it's inevitable some people will get tired of us.
knew nervous people
We were very nervous but it were right exciting. We weren't hooligans but we knew people that were.
thinking glasses rocks
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 the swap. I think the cyclical nature of the universe in which it exists demands that acquiesce to some of its rules. But it's always waiting there, just around the corner, ready to make its way back through the sludge and smash through the glass ceiling, looking better than ever. Yeah, that rock and roll, it seems like it's faded away sometimes, but it will never die. And there's nothing you can do about it
winning one-direction drains
There's that 15 quid we put on One Direction to win down the drain.
song writing cracks
There have always been jokes all over our songs; I originally started writing lyrics to make my friends crack a smile, which is difficult.
hair people missing
I still miss the days when a haircut was just a haircut. It was only your mates you had to face. Now there's a whole industry centred around people analysing your 'look'. I just cannot understand how anyone could get so worked up by... hair.
thinking reflection lost
You spend your time thinking about that and you get lost in reflection.
firsts chickens
What came first the chicken or the dickhead?
somewhere-else ideas dreamy
A lot of peopletell me I'm a bit dreamy, but I like the idea of that. Of being somewhere else.
summer guitar years
It was 2002, we all got guitars for Christmas and started playing in my garage that summer, rehearsed there and in a warehouse for a bit for about a year. We did our first gig in June 2003 and we played a few gigs in and around Sheffield for a bit then started doing gigs outside of Sheffield about this time last year, recording demos while all this was going on.
song writing waiting
Sometimes writing songs is like waiting for deliveries.
thinking people worry
You can't worry what people think.
school kids men
Songwriters always reminded me of that kid at school who would go around with his guitar, like, "Yeah, songwritin' man," looking wistful. That wasn't me - those kinds of people put me off.
song writing perfection
Every time you write a song, you're looking for some sort of perfection, and you never quite reach it. You're always looking for that extra missing piece.