Alex Kapranos
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"Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley", commonly known as "Alex Kapranos", is a Scottish musician and the lead singer and guitarist of the Glasgow-based band Franz Ferdinand (band)/Franz Ferdinand.

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A lot of being creative means going and doing it, putting in eight hours a day.

You're so lucky, lucky, lucky.

Fare thee well, fare thee well / I am leaving, yes I'll leave it all to you.

We find ourselves in a much better position than we did last year touring because then we had only a certain amount of songs to draw upon, ... When we played for an hour, we had to play almost everything we knew.

When I first started in a band, I wasn't very good; I was thinking too much about being on stage rather than just being on stage. It's completely primal. Intuitive. Instinctive. You don't consider your moves, you just do them. There are very few things in life when you're just doing that thing and not thinking about anything else. Performing is one of them.

It would be great to get the Christmas number one. I suppose we could even write something special for Christmas. I think Santa Loves Franz Ferdinand sounds pretty good.

Do you remember the last time we were here? ... Nightmare... At least the weather's better.

I don't think that really works, does it?

I was talking to another musician.