Noel Gallagher: Quitting Oasis Was Like Dumping A Girlfriend

Noel Gallagher has compared quitting Oasis to dumping a girlfriend.

The guitarist, who quit the band following a row with bother Liam in Paris in August 2009, said he had had enough of all the band arguments.

In an interview with Yahoo, Gallagher said: "I'd liken to it when you know when you're about to dump a girl, I don't know what made it any different. We'd had worse fights, worse arguments.

"I don't, maybe I just sat there and I thought, 'This has gone on too long.' I can't remember what exactly I was thinking, but it's like, why do people change jobs? You just sit there one day and you think, 'I didn't feel like this yesterday, but I feel like it now. I'm off.'"

The singer also told fans not to expect him to interact with them during his forthcoming live tours next month.

''The live side, even in rehearsals, it's really strange. It's not really gonna hit me until I get onstage, because I haven't got the genetic makeup of a frontman. I haven't got anything to say, I haven't got any new moves, I don't know any jokes. I've just got songs.

He added: "Frontmen come alive when they come onstage. I've got to wait and see what happens. I'm a bit. I wouldn't say I'm nervous, but I'm trepidatious, if indeed that is a word. I'm not a natural frontman as of yet. But then again, my inner Elvis might take over when I hit the stage!"

'Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds' is released next month.