Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley (born 20 March 1972), commonly known as Alex Kapranos, is a Scottish musician and the lead singer and guitarist of the Glasgow-based band Franz Ferdinand. Read full biography of Alex Kapranos →
I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.
I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.
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.
If success had come along when I was 17 it would either have killed me or sent me completely mad.
People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.
The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.
The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?
There are loads of bands I'd love to produce.
Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.
You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.
You really only understand whether a song's good or not when you properly play it out in public for the first time.
Glasgow's not a media center. When you're there, when you're hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or... →
Maybe 'Can't Stop Feeling' and 'Turn It On' we'll just release as singles. It's a thing The Beatles used to do which I... →
Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley (born 20 March 1972), commonly known as Alex Kapranos, is a Scottish musician and the lead singer and guitarist of the Glasgow-based band Franz Ferdinand.