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Noel Gallagher has written 42 new songs for the follow-up to 2011's High Flying Birds debut, despite recently claiming he had no plans for another album.
However, Noel added that he'd happily do nothing if his wife Sarah would let him - apart from smoking, drinking tea and watching Match Of The Day 2.
He told The Daily Mail, "I can easily see me taking 10 years off – I’d do it now if the missus would let me. I’d do absolutely nothing if I could get away with it, as I’m brilliant at that.
Noel continued, "Writing songs is my real hobby and I’m lucky enough to have made a career out of it."
Don't expect a new album any time soon, though, as Noel told Time Out Dubai earlier that there is no plan for a record just yet.
" I never sit down and think ‘today I’m going to write a new album’," he said, "I just write as a hobby, whenever I get ten minutes I’m always [messing] about on this guitar here and if a line for a song pops into my head I might write it down.
"And then there’ll come a point where somebody will say ‘you’ve not made a record for four years’ and I’ll cobble together all the songs that I’ve got. [Now] there’s nothing, there’s no plans. I am really, really enjoying resting on my laurels at the minute. My laurels are [very] comfy."
Noel Gallagher has 42 songs written, but no plans to make a new album
Noel finished by acknowledging the amount of songs he's written, saying, "I’ve got lots of songs, more songs than I know what to do with.
"If somebody put a gun to my head tomorrow and said ‘I need four albums by the end of the week’, I could probably do it."
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