“Louis Tomlinson from One Direction – he had a tune out before the pandemic, and one day someone calls me and says they are offering 40 per cent of the publishing because it was one of (my) tunes. They sent it to me because it was meant to be like ‘Acquiesce’, and I couldn’t hear it. They said, ‘No, wait till the chorus. And I listened and couldn’t hear it. But I took the money – thank you. They were pre-empting and my publishers said I needed a credit. I was like, ‘Thanks.’ It paid for a new kitchen.”
-Noel Gallagher on Louis paying for his new kitchen with Walls royalties. (2 February 2024)
"If you look at Noel's lap in the photo, he's got an address book full of phone numbers. He started going through this book, phoning these numbers and asking people, 'Alright, have you seen our kid?' The other person would obviously say, 'No,' and Noel would be like, 'OK, see you later.' I, coming from the south, didn't understand what he meant by 'our kid,' so I asked him, and he was like, 'The singer, my brother.' I was like, 'Oh right, so you're definitely in the band?' He said: 'I am the fucking band.' I was so blissfully ignorant.”