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"I was sitting next to this girl on the plane the other day, a Latin orator. She was like, 'What are the band called?' It was really hard to tell her. They're two words that really fucking should not be together." - Discussing his band's name with Pitchfork
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"If 50 Cent's "In Da Club" comes on in the car, you can't skip it." - Telling Spin about his love for 50 Cent
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"Do we want to be the biggest band in the world? I dunno. Do we want the 3D fucking live show? Maybe. I wouldn't mind being in 3D. Fuck it." - To Q on his 3D ambitions
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"Sometimes writing songs is like waiting in for deliveries." - Revealing his songwriting process to Spin
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"I actually stole it from the Velvet Underground, I'll just confess that now and get it out of the way. The 'VU' record, obviously. Did we cop out? Yeah!" - On the inspiration for the name of AM to Radio 1
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"I should have been the one that said you look good on the dance floor. - Flirting with BBC presenter Susanna Reid
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"Its all about the girls; I just cant bring meself to write about the mountains yet. Im still banging on about the same shit I was in the beginning, I suppose, but perhaps Im directing it differently now." - Discussing what inspires him with Pitchfork
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"At the end of the day, you can't beat a Dove bar." - To Pitchfork on his soap preferences
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"I've been pointing my hands for ages though! Maybe it's just the quiff confusing people? Jo Whiley just said I was channeling my inner Elvis, but I dunno man. It's not intentional!" - Responding to criticism from fans that he was acting like an American "50s crooner" at Glastonbury, to the NME
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"I would love to write music for Breaking Bad. I think I've run out of time, unfortunately, because there's only a couple of episodes left. And, well, if they haven't got the music for them already...they need to get their shit together." - To the NME
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"People get too angry about X Factor and talent shows. Just let them get on with it, you need that to kick against. People talk about how that's ruined everything but there's always been shitty pop music,whether it came from a television show or not" - he told BBC Newsnight.
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"All the boys got shorter hair, and I thought, What can I do to one-up them? I am the singer after all, and youve gotta be a dick sometimes. I saw an Elvis picture where he had the curl, and I thought, Maybe I could do that. Once you have the haircut, certain clothes just start to look right, dont they?" - he told GQ, discussing his quiff.
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"If I could play guitar like Josh, I fucking would, but I dont know how he gets where he goes. His mind works backwards, I cant play shit like that," - he told Pitchfork of the band's collaboration with the Queens Of The Stone Age frontman.
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"I'm sure fame has fucking gone to me head, to be honest. How could it not, to some extent? There's certain moments of fucking madness, I suppose, that you have. You have nights where you're like, 'Oh shit, I shouldn't have done that.'" - he told Q Magazine.
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