Alex Turner Quotes

We've had musical stuff in the show [South Park] forever. That's mostly because Trey's a big musical fan, and he's a great songwriter. He's been writing songs his whole life. So since the beginning, we've always put a lot of musical moments.

I'm a big fan of comedy music.

I guess I'm like Roger Miller who used to say that he didn't have as many jokes as he thought he did.

I put on a big show when I write something I think is funny.

I think I write funny songs that make people kind of, like, stop what they're doing and be like, 'What did you say?' And then it makes them laugh a little bit.

I get giddy with the idea of stringing words together that make people laugh.

There's a few tunes of mine that don't have jokes, but most of them have a joke and they have a humorous point of view somewhere.

I love a good laugh as well, I think that's so important in life, which is probably why I've dabbled in comedy writing as well as horror. I think if you can make someone laugh or smile it's the most special thing in the world.

There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy. But I do like the idea of being an auteur in the sense of writing and being in your own stuff.

I don't feel that I'm explaining the world or teaching people anything. And I'm not trying to be a mirror, showing them what's really going on the world. All I'm trying to do is think of stuff that's funny, just like when I'm kidding around with my friends.

I like to play music, and I like to be funny, so I just do both at the same time.

I am not so secretly a comedian. I write a lot of my own material if you've seen videos I've done. I write jokes.

I think a comedian has a more specific job. Whereas a musician can fall into different categories, you know, of making background music or doing a soundtrack or wanting to be in a band or writing the song, or writing your own songs. And then comedy is a very black and white thing. You want to make people happy.

Any band that doesn't have a sense of humor has a little bit of a problem.

We try to write the best songs ever and they kinda come out funny.

I love to smile. I love to laugh. I like to hear jokes. For instance, when I'm on the road, every night I watch 'Seinfeld.' I find it somewhere. I think it's so funny, and I watch the repeats over and over again.

I never write jokes, I just try to make myself laugh.

If anything, I've probably tended more toward humor in my writing and veered more toward pleasure in my personal life.

More of my songs are intended to be funny than almost anyone else. Sometimes maybe it cheers me up a bit. I've got a distance from it. Sometimes what I'm writing is more important to me than the rest of my life. It's more important to me that I'm writing well than anything else.

I've always had levity in my songs, so I like to turn things over, twist them around, and make fun of myself.

There's this art form in songwriting that's incredibly difficult - to be really funny in a song and also really touching. I can't do that.

I think comedy's just about being interested in comedy and what makes people laugh and experimenting.

I love jokes as much as anyone, but I don't want to hear my snail jokes every day. But I might want to hear a good song every day.

Hopefully, underlying all my jokes is an element of surprise.

I love writing stand-up so much and tinkering and looking for ideas.