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jetskisonyourmoat · 4 months

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Quotes from the Arctic Monkeys' 2011 Q magazine interview that I can't stop thinking about.

(This image is not from the Q interview)

'Alex Turner, today is more ethereally distracted than ever transfixed by the studio Ipod playing Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones version of I'd Rather Go Blind. Occasionally, he'll completely lose his conversational thread, "Um, I've dropped a stitch." The first to arrive for Q's photoshoot, he greets his incoming bandmates with enormous hugs and also hugs them goodbye.'

"Oh, Ok. Let's do it," he blinks, now perched in an empty dressing room. He then vigorously shakes his head, "Um... I've gotta snap back into it.'

'Q: Blimey, Alex. What must you be like when you're completely stoned out of your head?

AT: Stoned? What d'you mean, cos i seem like that anyway! Yeah. A lot of people... tell me I'm a bit... dreamy. But I like the idea of that. Of being somewhere else."'

‘Ask Turner why he thinks the chasm between his writing and speaking eloquence is quite so mesmerisingly vast and he attempts a theory. “Well, writing isn’t the same as speaking,” he muses. “Not for me. I seem to struggle more and more with… conversation. Talking onstage… I can’t do it anymore. Hmm. I’ll have to work on that.”’

#I feel like interviews never understand his autistic whimsy 😪#it is a funny interview though #and most of the quotes have been floating around without a source or context for ages #alex turner #autism #written interview

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