Quotes

I made it, you know, I climbed all the way to the bar [during the show] and I came to the bar, and I asked for a drink and he gave me water!

I used to love stealing cars when I was a kid but I don't do that anymore.

[Female fan standing next to him: Goddammit, man. You *are* pretty short, aren't you?] I'm 5'3".

[Nick's kid crying in the background] What was that? [Alex Kapranos: You created it!]

[on injuring his foot mid-way through Franz Ferdinand's US tour, April 2009] I've bust my foot and it's driving me insane but the shows are brilliant. [I'm] sitting around all day with my foot over my heart, to get the swelling down they tell me. I had to get out... [footage of him cooling his swollen foot in a nearby river] This is the old Austrian tradition of the Kneipp Kur, which I learned back in my childhood in the Bavarian alps. Who'd have known it would ever come in handy?

I think we can all have a nice time with each other. I don't like telling people what to do but I wish no one would start the smallest of personal wars or the biggest of global wars. I also think children should be excluded from any harm that could ever fall upon them.

[2005] Well, I thought I wanted to record a river. Just to see what it sounds like backwards. [listening to recording later] That's what it sounds like. [laughs] There you go. That's it. Rubbish, straight away.

[speaking in German to person on the phone as bandmates Bob and Alex approach with camera] Jetzt filmen sie mich, die Arschlöcher. [to bandmates] Arschlöcher!

You *can't* dance to your own songs. That's really sick, I think.