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I started writing sketches when I was 13. I liked Vic Reeves, Fry and Laurie, and Paul Merton, and I thought you could just send sketches to the BBC, and they'd go, 'Great. We'll put these on telly.' But I gradually realised that you either had to go to university and join a club, or do standup.Collection: Noel
I guess standup is really painting pictures with words - especially for me, as I describe quite fantastical, visual things. My art teacher, Dexter Dalwood, always seemed to think they were linked. We bonded over our love of Vic Reeves.Collection: Noel
The film-maker Alejandro Jodorowsky - his films are hard to watch - they're so dense and rich - but they're probably the best things ever made. And Spike Milligan, who was light years ahead of the rest - I played some of his stuff to Jack Black once. He'd never heard of him, so watching him listen to Spike for the first time was just hilarious.Collection: Noel
When people come to see you, they know what you do. That's what they want. They want it to be quite English; they don't want to watch an English bloke trying to fit in. They want it to be quintessentially English in the way that Ricky Gervais is rude to people at the Golden Globes.Collection: Noel
I always had a sort of niggling regret that we didn't come do stuff in America.Collection: Noel
I'd rather do smaller theaters, because it's more fun for the audience and more fun for me. I like to build up demand.Collection: Noel
The Boosh was cult, but then it crossed over a bit, which we needed it to, because we were working on it full time, and it needed to go mainstream so we could keep making material.Collection: Noel
I can't write unless I've got the voice for a character.Collection: Noel
The best stuff comes out when you're not making it for anything and you don't really know what you're making.Collection: Noel
I love the Boosh, but there were so many people around us that it became a cash cow. Everyone's going, 'Do this. Do that. This is the answer'.Collection: Noel
If my dinner was really hot, I'd put my fork up to my eye and look at my little brother through the steam coming off the food. He'd say: 'Mum, he's looking at me through his fork again.' It sent him insane.Collection: Noel
When I was at art college, a can of Spray Mount adhesive cost £12: £2 more than my weekly food bill.Collection: Noel
I like how food can look incredible more than I like eating it. I started moving food around the plate to make it appear I'd eaten more but then enjoyed making faces on the plate - peas for eyebrows, Yorkshire puddings for eyes.Collection: Noel
I've got a beautiful kitchen, which looks like a '60s version of space, with silver chrome, orange glass work surfaces, and brown leather, and it's entirely visual and has little function. I've hardly got any knives, and there's only one wooden spoon and one saucepan. But I think I've got a cheese grater, so that's good.Collection: Noel
Fame is a bit Nietzschean. For everything good, something bad happens to you, so you have to sort of be careful.Collection: Noel
When you're famous, you can't go to Topshop. Even when I disguise myself in a moustache, baseball cap, sunglasses - the full Madonna kit - it doesn't work: my stupid face is too big.Collection: Noel
I just like magical, fantastical stuff. I don't really see it as surreal when I'm writing. It's just, I write, and then I have an idea, and usually, they're quite odd.Collection: Noel
You can't please all of the people all of the time; you can only please some of the people some of the time.Collection: Noel
My parents had lots of parties. They were hopelessly bohemian. They were just 18 when they had me.Collection: Noel
They were too young to be proper parents. They never said, 'You've got to go to bed or you'll be tired for school'. They didn't mind - they let me stay up.Collection: Noel
I quite like bacon sandwiches because they're colourful. Mashed potato on toast is fine. But colourful and easy to eat is best.Collection: Noel
My mum and dad are massive Bowie fans, so I grew up listening to his music.Collection: Noel
'Moonage Daydream' is my favourite because it's an amazing pop tune with such strange parts to it.Collection: Noel
On my show, nobody's being paid more than me. I don't ask what they're being paid - I just make sure they're not getting more than me.Collection: Noel
I hated school, so when I got to this place with other people who could draw and were interested in wearing makeup, it was amazing.Collection: Noel
Reality depresses me. I need to find fantasy worlds and escape in them.Collection: Noel
Under Thatcher, who ruled us with an iron rod, great art was made. Amazing designers and musicians. Acid house was born. Very colourful and progressive.Collection: Noel
Making records should be fun.Collection: Noel
I'm against people downloading music.Collection: Noel
I remember the '70s constantly being winter in Manchester and the Irish community in Manchester closing ranks because of the IRA bombings in Birmingham and Manchester, and you know the bin-workers' strike, all wrapped up in it... They were violent times. Violence at home and violence at football matches.Collection: Noel
People say I seem very negative about new music - well, if somebody asks me what I think of Keane, I'll tell 'em. I don't like 'em. I'll obviously take it a step too far and grossly insult the keyboard player's mam or summat, but I'm afraid that's just me.Collection: Noel
I don't like being on television when I'm playing live. I don't even like being on Jools Holland or any of them programs.Collection: Noel
I'm a little bit of a control freak when it comes to my music, unfortunately.Collection: Noel
Why is the rest of the world so overcrowded? Nobody lives in America! We're all squashed up on top of each other in London.Collection: Noel
I've got my own style on the guitar, sure, and I play rhythm in a certain way, and I use certain inflections. People have said that to me, and I understand it.Collection: Noel
If I can give you any advice, it's this: every hour that you spend sat on the couch doing nothing, put it to good use, because when you have kids, an hour is like a lifetime.Collection: Noel
Gone are the days when Virgin Records was owned by Richard Branson, a fan of music. Now they're all owned by some guy who bought it off some guy who bought it off some guy who wants a return on his investment.Collection: Noel
I've grown to love California: It's the dream of every English musician to come here and work in the sunshine. To walk up Sunset Boulevard, knowing you're going to make music - that's it.Collection: Noel
My son ain't going to be miserable because he's going to be the child of a rock star, the end.Collection: Noel
Frontmen come alive when they come onstage.Collection: Noel
I'm not technically proficient enough to attempt all kinds of music.Collection: Noel
I'm used to people being a mile away. That suits me. It's more nerve-wracking playing in front of people who are two feet away from me.Collection: Noel
You have to make the effort with children. You can't have them thinking that I reckon I'm special, otherwise they'll start thinking they're special. I want them to feel normal for as long as possible because God knows they'll reach an age when they'll be told they're not.Collection: Noel
I first came to London when I was 22 and working as a roadie. Having watched the 'News At Ten' all my life, I thought Big Ben was going to be massive, but I was underwhelmed.Collection: Noel
As I get older, I don't aggressively pursue songs. All the great ones just appear.Collection: Noel
Anything that's of any use, famous people get hold of it and take it for themselves and it gets a bad rap.Collection: Noel
I don't think people need to know what colour socks I'm wearing today; I don't think people need to know what shower gel I'm using. There's too much information in the world, and there's no magic or mystery anymore.Collection: Noel
I love the NFL. I don't have a team per se, but I'm into it.Collection: Noel
You can't really write a full album about your missus. She'll start getting the wrong idea and start thinking I like her.Collection: Noel
You can't put a load of rockstars up on a stage and expect to wipe out global poverty. That's ludicrous.Collection: Noel