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Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley (born 20 March 1972) is a Scottish, musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and author. He is best known as the lead singer and guitarist of Scottish rock band Franz Ferdinand. He has also been a part of the supergroups FFS and BNQT.

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Men behave very oddly in the company of attractive women.

Attractive, Company, Men, Women

Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.

Ambition, Band, Good Things, Bands, Thing, Sneered

If I was a fan of someone as a teenager, then it's OK for me to feel completely in awe when I meet them.

Awe, Fan, Fans, Teenager

You can't write for the cultural environment - if you do that, by the time it comes out, that cultural environment has passed. You have to be aiming for something that's original - that's the only way you can have any kind of impact.

Aiming, Environment, Kind, Original, Way, Writing

Just because you can leap off a drum kit doing a scissors kick while hitting a chord, people expect you to be an extrovert socially. But I'm not always comfortable with the idea of small talk at a party.

Drum, Ideas, Party, People, Scissors

It's fine to indulge yourself so long as you don't try and foist it on the rest of the world.

Fine, Foist, Indulge, Long, Trying, World

The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?

Girl, Girls, Like, Locker, Lockers, School

I have always been fascinated by the concept of the villain and the hero being in one person.

Fascinated, Hero, Persons, Villain

If success had come along when I was 17 it would either have killed me or sent me completely mad.

Come, Completely, Ifs, Mad, Success

You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.

Begin, Embrace, Ridiculousness, Sense

It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity.

Adventure, Adventurous, Identity, Matter, Want

Of course, there's a certain type of person who feels that anything which becomes mainstream has to be rejected immediately. And that's part of the indie-alternative snobbery and hierarchy and elitism.

Alternatives, Elitism, Hierarchy, Mainstream, Person

Anyone can play an instrument if you show them how to move their limbs, lips or fingers the right way. It's irrelevant. What is relevant is personality, energy, creativity and disturbing sense of humour.

Moving, Creativity, Personality, Limbs, Fingers

I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.

Band, Bands, Come, Think, Thinking, Tour

There are loads of bands I'd love to produce.

Band, Bands, Load, Loads, Produce

Although they might not admit it, I think girls are very aware of the impact that they're having. But they never feel it themselves, and it's impossible to explain. It's like trying to tell a blind person what yellow is.

Girl, Impact, Impossible, Thinking, Yellow

I want to change and try new ideas - allowing your sonic identity to evolve in your music and not being afraid of that. You see musicians hit upon something that works, and then go, "Let's keep doing that for 10 years. " And that idea kind of terrifies me a little bit. It becomes like a day job then.

Change, Identity, Keep, Musician, Trying, Years

You're letting such a fragile side of yourself out when you're creating or writing music. To do that with people who are almost strangers would seem very strange to me. I think that we're very lucky that we're quite close. To us, it's almost like the band is the grandest possible adventure you can go on with your friends. It's really really exciting.

Adventure, Lucky, Strange, Think, Thinking, Writing

Being in a band didn't buy me my beans on toast!

Band, Beans, Buy, Toast, Toasts

Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.

Character, Characters, Kitchen, Traditionally, Unemployable, Wind

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