Alex Kapranos Quotes

At heart, I'm a relationship guy, but my adventurous side makes it hard. I hope I'll find a balance.

It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

As free and crazy as we want to be, and how much we want to make the world a canvas, there's also a part of us that doesn't want to make any mark.

I don't hide anything about myself, so I don't find it difficult to talk about things that happen in my life... But at the same time, I don't like putting myself out there too much. That's how I am.

Training readers to expect a voice or subject matter from me would interfere with the reinvention I crave. At the same time, I feel almost too able to disappear at times.

I like to play my game. I don't want to do anything out of control, out of nature.

I think there's always a conflict within me about being comfortable and secure and then being an individual and fighting for what I want to be on an individual basis.

When you've worked as hard as I have to form your identity, the last thing you want is to blur where you end and someone else begins.

I stay close to my identity - that's something I find important - but I don't completely shut myself off from the outside world.

I think sometimes we put blinders on and define our personas very narrowly and are afraid to step outside the comfort zone - something I've never been afraid to do.

Instead of boiling up individuals into the species, I would draw a chalk circle round every individuality, and preach to it to keep within that, and preserve and cultivate its identity.

Personality maintains its discreetness by an act of will. Otherwise one person will flow helplessly into another.

I'm not going to become anybody I don't want to become.

I'm more than a songwriter. I'm a creative person. Some people you just always see. I won't allow you to see me unless it makes sense. There's a reason to see me.

There's a constant tension in climbing, and really all exploration, between pushing yourself into the unknown but trying not to push too far. The best any of us can do is to tread that line carefully.

A character is a completely fashioned will.

I'm still trying to figure out what the right line is between myself and the people I play. Sometimes I go too far one way or too far the other.

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

As I traveled from one country to another, no one knew anything about me. So I could be anybody, I could speak as I wished, act as I wished, dress as I wished.

I remember the first time I went to Europe, I had someone take a picture of me there, so I could really see myself there. There's a sense of being outside yourself, and I think celebrity allows us that too, to be outside ourselves.

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

There are two rules I've always tried to live by: turn left, if you're supposed to turn right; go through any door that you're not supposed to enter. It's the only way to fight your way through to any kind of authentic feeling in a world beset by fakery.

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

I rant, therefore I am.

I think skating helped me find myself.