Alex kapranos

Glasgow's not a media center. When you're there, when you're hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone, in a good way.

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.

The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?

You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.

Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.

Cinema, which is influenced by every single part of life, is direct and reaches you immediately. And writing - the best writing is complex ideas communicated concisely. And music - if it's a good...

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.

You really only understand whether a song's good or not when you properly play it out in public for the first time.

There are loads of bands I'd love to produce.

Why play a chord when you can play one note?