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
adventures anymore closed moving music thinking
We're getting a lot of (new) music together. It's all about our adventures at the moment. We don't see Sheffield much anymore ? it's a closed book. We're moving on and thinking about different things.
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.
romantic
I am a romantic fool, no doubt about that.
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.
emphasis great music records roses sales sold stone
I think all this emphasis on sales is misguided. If you look at the Stone Roses or the Jam, you don't think about how many records they sold but what great music they made. That's what is?.
arriving home sure terminal
I'm not even sure where home is. Probably Terminal 5. There is a strange sense of calm about arriving back at Heathrow.
faded roll
Rock n' roll seems like it's faded away sometimes, but it will never die.
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.
gateway
Television? It's a gateway to writer's block, isn't it?
effect might music
'Hatful of Hollow' and 'The Smiths' were lent to me, and they made me want to create music that might make another person feel like they made me feel - to have an effect on someone.
directly
The idea that talent is directly proportional to your trophy cabinet is one I oppose.
hopefully immune maybe might people realize seem tabloid
Hopefully the tabloid thing has peaked. It doesn't seem to be as big (to us) as what people might think it is. Maybe we are immune to all of it because of everything that's happened. Maybe in 10 years we'll realize what it is.
crack good
It'll never be the same as it is here. It can never be the same, but we can have a good crack at it.
alright couple gone heard months square
I think I'm alright as a lyricist, you know? But then what will happen every couple of months or so is that I'll hear a song I've never heard before and feel I've gone right back to square one.