About Alex Kapranos: Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley is a Scottish musician and the lead singer and guitarist of the Glasgow-based band Franz Ferdinand.
Although they might not admit it, I think girls are very aware of the impact that they're having. But they never feel it themselves, and it's impossible to explain. It's like trying to tell a blind person what yellow is.
Just because you can leap off a drum kit doing a scissors kick while hitting a chord, people expect you to be an extrovert socially. But I'm not always comfortable with the idea of small talk at a party.
I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.
Ideally, musicians belong outside the Establishment. When they cross that line, it's like something in them has died.
There's a difference between expectations and aspirations.
A lot of bands have the enthusiasm kicked out of them by playing really dreary pub venues that just churn bands through.
Of course, there's a certain type of person who feels that anything which becomes mainstream has to be rejected immediately. And that's part of the indie-alternative snobbery and hierarchy and elitism.
It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.
The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?
If I was a fan of someone as a teenager, then it's OK for me to feel completely in awe when I meet them.
No matter what you do, if you're trying to create something new, your environment has a massive impact on you.
Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.
Boho to me is a first-year student who's just discovered the tie-dye shop.
Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.
Maybe 'Can't Stop Feeling' and 'Turn It On' we'll just release as singles. It's a thing The Beatles used to do which I really loved, the idea of releasing something as a single completely on its own.
There's a character that I play onstage, and I can't let him loose in the supermarket when I'm buying my beans on toast.
Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.
Why play a chord when you can play one note?
I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.
