Turner: "I know my lyrics might be weird to some, but they're not like that to me because I know where they come from - I know the secret."

Turner: "I'm in a difficult position in the sense that, preposterous as this might sound, I don't like being the centre of attention. I get up on stage every night and play songs, but I almost feel the songs are the centre of attention. I don't like opening my birthday presents in front of people, either."

Turner: "There's something about a Gucci loafer kicking on a fuzz pedal."

Turner: "I can't draw. I'm good on the yo-yo, but I don't draw."

Turner: "I just wanted to do something that would freak people out. That's the best thing to do."

Turner: "I usually sit around with the guitar in reach and grab it when I get an idea. Sometimes it lasts five minutes, and sometimes it lasts all day."

Turner: "But you have to see the funny side of it. It’s only in this situation that I find myself analyzing it."

Turner: "I think I'm alright as a lyricist, you know? But then what will happen every couple of months or so is that I'll hear a song I've never heard before and feel I've gone right back to square one."

Turner: "Guitar music or rock n' roll or whatever you want to call it sort of goes away with trends, but it'll never go away completely. It can't die because it's so fundamentally attractive."

Turner: "There’s a bit of getting out and trying to move in different directions, but we didn’t know where to go yet."

Turner: "I grew up very close to some forest, and I spent a lot of my formative years up and down trees, fooling around in the woods. I'm no stranger to that sort of landscape."

[On the potential similarities between Drake's music with the Arctic Monkeys, Libertines, and Queens of the Stone Age]

Turner: "I think those galaxies are connected. There’s melodic links. Maybe not Drake, but you stare at that dark night sky long enough and it fits together: 'I didn’t notice that before, but that’s alright.' You can’t just throw anything together, because then it’s a bit like orange juice and toothpaste."

Turner: "I'm not even sure where home is. Probably Terminal 5. There is a strange sense of calm about arriving back at Heathrow."

Turner: "Rock n' roll seems like it's faded away sometimes, but it will never die."

Turner: "Every time you write a song, you're looking for some sort of perfection, and you never quite reach it. You're always looking for that extra missing piece."

Turner: "I think each thing in a way acts as a stepping - stone for whatever the next thing is."

Turner: "The first time I went to New York, it was really exciting, and I thought, given half the chance, it would be nice to live there - the same with London."

Turner: "That rock’n’roll, it just won’t go away. It might hibernate from time to time, sink back into the swamp. I think the cyclical nature of the universe in which it exists demands that acquiesce to some of its rules. But it’s always waiting there, just around the corner,” he added. “Ready to make its way back through the sludge and smash through the glass ceiling, looking better than ever. Yeah, that rock’n’roll, it seems like it’s faded away sometimes, but it will never die. And there’s nothing you can do about it."

Turner: "There’s something about this [tugs on tips of his ‘do] that feels futuristic as well. The way it fucking protrudes forward. That’s my angle on it anyways."

Turner: "You spend your time thinking about that and you get lost in reflection."

Turner: "A lot of people tell me I'm a bit dreamy, but I like the idea of that. Of being somewhere else."

Turner: "The idea that talent is directly proportional to your trophy cabinet is one I oppose."

Turner: "I'm not really one for collaborations, to be quite honest."

Turner: "It's a very unnatural environment to be in, up on a stage. So you put up defenses to hide. Like looking at the ground with your hair in your eyes, or being tightly wound and quite aggressive and uncooperative, as I used to do."

Turner: "Sometimes I don't want to be in the confines of what a band seems to provide."

Turner: "But there’s something about those melodies. They’re two-way pager melodies. And they’re guitar riffs that have a Tombstone feeling about them. The colors from both those rainbows mix together well."

Turner: "Sometimes, writing songs is like waiting in for deliveries. They give you a window, and your washing machine is going to show up, whether the window is the album or something you're thinking, like, 'This thing is going to come to me.'

Turner: "I'm like the Ben Affleck of crowd surfing."

Turner: "There's something to be said for writing in the morning. At other points in the day, you're a bit more defensive.

Turner: "If anyone asks me about songwriting, I guess I'd say that you just gotta do it."

Turner: "I just don't think I'm equipped to soundtrack the times. There might be someone out there who can do that, but I haven't cracked it."

Turner: "Songwriters always reminded me of that kid at school who would go around with his guitar, like, 'Yeah, songwritin' man,' looking wistful. That wasn't me - those kinds of people put me off. In the early days, I'd write a bunch of lyrics and almost look at them as a sort of joke, to make the rest of the boys laugh."