"Drugs are too boring for me, I've kicked it on the head" -Noel
"Liam puts lager before music, bless him.' -Noel
"I'd never leave the band for too long, they'd all cry!" -Noel
"Books are rubbish!" -Noel
"Half the people wouldn't visit their grandmother's grave...then they go and throw flowers at the coffin of some bird they've never met" -Noel on Princess Diana's death
"Stand in front of my side of the stage cos I'm the best looking one" -Noel
"I thought internet was something that fishermen use" -Noel
"I'm not getting married today-I'm in bed" -Liam
"Our country is a disgrace to us" -Noel commenting on their rude behaviour at the 1996 Brit Awards
"I always thought we were good and we were going to be huge,that's not arrogance but self-belief" -Noel
"You pick up your guitar, rip a few people's tunes off, swap them round a bit, get your brother in the band, punch his head in every now and again, and it sells" -Noel
"If they weren't brothers,Noel would've sacked Liam long ago" -Ex-tour manager Ian Robertson
"I've done the groupie bit...but I'm not in the band to sleep around. I am in it for two big reasons. I love music and I want to be very rich" -Noel
"I don't give a f--- about America as long as they buy our records" -Noel on America
"I put drug references in Oasis songs because I take them.I write about what I know" -Noel
"Well be as big as the Beatles,if not bigger" -Liam
"I'm not like John Lennon. I just think I'm John Lennon -Noel
"I want to get back in a cab in New York City and have the taxi driver know exactly who I am" -Noel
"If we had a greengrocers,Gallagher's Greengrocers,we'd argue over which way to set out the apples and the pears" -Liam
"Our security men are primarily employed to keep me and Our Kid apart from each other" -Noel
"Mum still clips me and Liam round the ear if we swear" -Noel
"It's hard to be humble at times like this,so I won't try.You're all shit" -Noel at the New Musical Express Brat Awards
"I don't give a f---- for any f---er.It's me who comes first" -:Liam
"You wanna try being me and Liam for an afternoon.You'd slit your throat,mate" -Noel
"We want to be remembered as the single greatest band of our generation" -Noel
"We hated the Smurfs as kids" -Liam on the Smurfs
"If I met John Lennon,I reckon I could find a bit of common ground with that chap" -Liam on John Lennon
"We like annoying people,it's a Manchester thing.It's a trait.We like pissing people off" -Noel
"It's a good thing we won, because we were going to thrash the place if we didn't" -Liam on receiving an award for Oasis
"I bite my nails.I smoke,drink.I'm a bit of a moody bastard" -Noel on his bad habits
"Being a lad is what I'm about. I can tell you who isn't a lad - anyone from Blur" - Liam on being a lad
"Liam is so vain that if he went into hospital he'd insist on having the X-rays retouched." - Paul Gallagher (older brother of fetching Liam)
"I love playing music. It's a gift that was given to me by whoever dishes out these talents to people...and as long as I believe I have something valid to put out as a piece of music then I'll keep doing it. As soon as I feel it's not, I'll stop and do something else like open a chippy or work in a butcher's shop." - Noel ,p> "It's weird being in a band with your brother. You go on the road, you live in the same van...we do interviews together. it's hell" -Liam
"I went to Paul McCartney's daughter Stella's party and who should open the door but the man himself. He was dead cool. There were all these questions I wanted to ask him but I settled on, Do you watch Brookside?" - Noel
"I do all the work so it's only right that I should get the most money. Plus I am the most handsome" - Noel
"Look at you, Whitey [refers to Alan White] - in the group for one year and already you got the big house and the car. There's me, right, struggling along for fucking years and then what happens at Christmas? 'Here you are, Whitey,' goes McGee, 'Here's your Xmas present.' And it's a car, a fucking car. 'Here you are Liam, lead singer, original member, who's worked his arse off for years, here's yours.' Compared to you, nish, fucking nish, and you've been in the group a year. Outrageous tackle." - Liam