Alex Kapranos Quotes

MF Doom is like so out-of-the-box and just crazy.

'I realize they say we are 'wacko' and 'out there, but we are the most rational of all.

I was always told that I was too strange or that I was too cheesy by different groups of people, like the record companies said I was way too weird and the indie people wouldn't even let me in their band.

My sensibilities are like, 'I want it to be weirder.'

I was a kid with a lot of different, strange interests - kind of crazy.

Be the weirdest little weird in all Weird Town.

The thing with Bill Shatner is he brings something unique to everything he does. He's not the obvious choice for anything, but he always brings something special to it.

If you define eccentricity as creativity, then yes, creativity is eccentricity.

The weirder the better for me.

Ireland is a great place to be odd.

I've always said time and time again that I hate anything conventional.

I like being strange. I like being hyperbolic and surreal.

To me, the more bizarre the character, the more I'm attracted to it.

I want to wear something that's not perfectly matching; there has to be something unorthodox about it. I want to create this mystery.

I'd work for John Waters again, because he's so off the wall.

Everyone is so weird in L.A. that if you're somewhat normal, it's exotic.

And I think that we're more of an alternative act in that sense, and that flavor comes across to the audience.

Mainstream to me equals boring, so I don't want to be doing that.

I'm very strange, I'm not going to lie.

I always liked strange characters.

I don't think I've ever tried to be anything other than a weirdo.

We knew that we were kind of odd and creeps, and we wanted to do odd, creepy stuff for people who wanted to see that.

I don't know anybody as creative and unique and off the wall as Dia Frampton. She's always asking me, 'Am I too weird?' I just tell her, 'People don't think you're weird, they think you're cool.'

I don't carry off 'quirky.'

I think I am naturally attracted to things that are a little bit out of this world.