Noel (when asked on Rockline about appearing on the Tonight Show) - "I'll just hang me coat on his chin when I get to the television studio"
Noel on expenses - "go out and buy the album lads,cause i gotta build another car park for the helicopter"
Noel on the 'real' king - "Liam's the King of the Lads. Not me. I'm the King of Kings!"
Liam's brotherly philosophy - "How often do we argue? Every day. Hourly. But it's not hate. It's love. I don't hate him. It's love. It's one of them. We're brothers, man. It's deep @#%$."
Liam confusion with condinsation - "I was staring in the mirror, and I saw god staring back at me"
Noel after the 1995 Brit Award - "We're rich..We're famous...Our album has beaten The Beatles' record...I am considered as one of the best song writer in the world...and do you think I am satisfiied with that...NO..NOT AT ALL..I WANT MORE!!!!"
Noels brutal honesty - "It is hard to be modest at times like these so I won't even try...you are all @#%$!"
Liam on being mad 4 it - "The press are mad for it, we're mad for it. I love being in the press. I love pissing people off me. I love pissing meself off"
Noel and Liam and Rolling Stone photographer after Oasis walked off after 1 hour - "But some bands give over eight hours for this," says the photographer.
Swiftly and bluntly, Noel and Liam put him straight on that one. "We're not some band. And your paper didn't make us, mate. And you know what about your Rolling Stone cover? Arsed mate, arsed."
Noel makes space in his hotels - "Me and Bonehead would just walk into a hotel room and empty it out the window"
Liam on cliches - "We don't do EVERY hotel room. We've done about three in our lifetimes. (As of 1994!) We're not that f***king cliche, man. It's not like we walk into a hotel and go, okay, that T.V. goes out the window straight away!"
Noel on his band - "We're a rock band, a pop band, a punk band, but then we're something else altogether. If you go back through 30 years of music, we're the best bits, your favourite bits, all encompassed in one band. We're Oasis."
Noel checking Alan's qualifications to be the new drummer -"As long as you're not eighteen stone and an ugly bastard, you get the job."
Liam the lad - "Being a lad is what I'm about. I can tell you who isn't a lad - anyone from Blur."
Noel reflects on Manchester - "Manchester bored me because it's too small. You can't fart without everybody knowing about it."
Rethorical Liam - "Any of you touch me an' you'll get a smack, knowworrimean?"
Interviewer: You once said in an interview that all the songs on Morning Glory have a connection. What is the connection?
Noel: It's all part of a big spiritual riddle to which only I have the answer.
Noel on shoe-throwing americans - "Americans are crazy. They have this facination with throwing their shoes on stage. I've been to a lot shows in me life, some good and some bad. But I was never moved to take off me shoes and throw it at the lead singer."
Noel meets Macca - "I went to Paul McCartney's daughter Stella's party and who should open the door but the man himself. He was dead cool. There were all these questions I wanted to ask him but I settled on, Do you watch Brookside?"
Interviewer: I have with me one of the stars of Oasis...
Noel: What do you mean one of the stars?
Noel on Jarvis Cocker after he ran onto the stage where Michael jackson was performing - "Jarvis is a star! I mean, all he did was get up on stage and get his belly out, but in England people thought it was so shocking. It's not as if he cracked on the head with a baseball bat -- which is what I woulda f**kin' done if I'd gone up there."
Dani Behr: Do you still have physical fights.
Noel: No. The last time was in March or May and we haven't done since because...
Dani Behr: Who won?
Noel: I did. He claims its because he was drunk, but I claimed I had won because I had a cricket bat in my hand.
Dani Behr: What's it like having loads of money now.
Noel: ...er...it's alright
Noel on stalkers - "Next year I hope to get a stalker or two because I don't belive you've arrived until you get a stalker."
Noel after being sued by Coke - "Now we all drink Pepsi"
Liam after getting another award - "It's a good thing we won, because we were going to thrash the place if we didn't."
Q: Do you have any recurring dreams?
Noel: Yeah. Just the one.
Liam: (Menacingly) I take over the band.
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