matt: “alex, on a scale of one to ten how does it feel to be in HD? if one was bad -”
alex: “- ten’s rad, right?”
matt: “ten’s rad”
alex: “well… i’m glad that it’s on a golf cart that i’m in HD”
arctic monkeys at splendour in the grass, australia, 2007 (x)
transcript:
interviewer: alright now boys, we are talking about festival romance today. you're very busy men; you've got a number one album, you're doing awesome stuff, how do you find time for the ladies, for a little lovin'?
(alex reaches for nick and nick presses a quick kiss to the back of alex's hand)
alex: it’s um…yeah we’re just- it’s easy to just, y’know, keep it amongst ourselves.
nick: keep it amongst our circles.
alex: we’re- we’re not so- we’re not rushing into things, y’know what i mean?
Matt Helders, the band’s drummer—and now its album-cover photographer—explains why a life at the rear of the stage has made him captivated by people’s backs.
Short article/interview with Matt in New Yorker Magazine (Oct 9, 2023 issue)
the thing that kills me about i wanna be yours (and generally all of AM) is that throughout the entire album alex is just yearning so openly for connection and belonging - but those are things that HAVE to come from someone else. i wanna be yours, sure, but do you want me to be yours too? hE DOESN'T KNOW, WE DON'T KNOW, NO ONE KNOWS. kill me
“Instead, the 21-year-old speaks in low murmurs, staring dreamily into the middle distance, his sentences often retreating into silence. In 40 minutes he becomes really animated only when a pheasant suddenly appears on the lawn (“Fucking hell! Look at that!”).”
— Alex Turner interviewed by Q magazine, 2007 (via rosalie-mae)