Parts of an interview with Noel Gallagher taken from the new issue of MOJO that is on sale now.
On the new High Flying Birds album Council Skies: "It's quite reflective but it's not nostalgic. Maybe 'Easy Now' which sounds quite Oasis-y. But the songs have a certain up-and-down mood to them. 'Pretty Boy's' a f*ucking party tune. It's my fourth studio album and it's encompasses, I think everything I've done in the last 13 years."
"I wrote it on acoustic guitar, which is what I would do in the past. It was the position David Holmes took me out of when I was writing stood up at a f*cking synthesizer on 'Who Built The Moon?' All that stuff was so far away from what I'm known for... The best songs I've written have always been inclusive and about 'us' rather than 'me' you know."
On The Cure remix of (Pretty Boy) and the Pet Shop Boys remix of (Think Of A Number): "To my ear, 'Pretty Boy' sounds like a cross between The Cure and The Cult, an era of alternative music which I f*cking love. I was fucking so blown away that (Robert Smith) got involved. I went to see the Pet Shop Boys at Glastonbury, f*cking amazing. I thought he track was very '80s, and they'd just done a remix for Weller, and they agreed to do it. It's quite the thing, let me tell you."
On if he feels like he is defending something with 'Council Skies': "I feel sometimes, that I'm defending my right to make music that's not f*cking indie rock and to jump around artistically. You feel like when you're making 'Pretty Boy' or 'Black Star Dancing', you have to justify why you're doing it, because people want you to rewrite f*cking 'Don't Look Back In Anger' 14 times on an album."'
On Having his own recording studio: "I'm the last f*cking songwriter in the world to get his own studio, it's taken me 'til I'm 5o f*cking five."
