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
album machine songs washing whether
Sometimes, writing songs is like waiting in for deliveries. They give you a window, and your washing machine is going to show up, whether the window is the album or something you're thinking, like, 'This thing is going to come to me.'
gateway
Television? It's a gateway to writer's block, isn't it?
confines
Sometimes I don't want to be in the confines of what a band seems to provide.
We live in Sheffield and we write about the things we see here. What else is there to write about?
might
I know my lyrics might be weird to some, but they're not like that to me because I know where they come from - I know the secret.
cups dixie four good groups
I like The Four Freshmen, anything with good harmonies, some Beach Boys. I like the girl groups as well, like The Dixie Cups and all that.
I'm like the Ben Affleck of crowd surfing.
centers freer good imagination perhaps york
I think New York is a good place to write in general because it's a grid. It's organized. You know where you are on the map. That centers you, and your imagination is perhaps freer to roam.
soundtrack
I just don't think I'm equipped to soundtrack the times. There might be someone out there who can do that, but I haven't cracked it.
close fooling formative grew sort spent stranger
I can be a woodsman if need be. I grew up very close to some forest, and I spent a lot of my formative years up and down trees, fooling around in the woods. I'm no stranger to that sort of landscape.
people technology whatever
It's about so much more than technology or whatever people think it was.
news talk wants
It were amazing. That day it was like, 'Sky News wants to talk to you'.
chance given half nice time
The first time I went to New York, it was really exciting, and I thought, given half the chance, it would be nice to live there - the same with London.
directly
The idea that talent is directly proportional to your trophy cabinet is one I oppose.