Liam Gallagher Gets Us Psyched for Oasis’s Cool New Album, Man

“There’s lots of cool parts, man. Really, we’re throwing everything at it. It’s gonna be cool, man.� —Liam Gallagher on Oasis’ upcoming 2008 release, man [Reuters]

“When I was a kid I had these huge glasses. I once went to a [costume party] as a Crest toothpaste tube with these huge glasses stuck on. That is how I see myself most of the time — a Crest toothpaste tube with bad eyesight.� —Jake Gyllenhaal [London Telegraph]

“You can see I’d walk on after a dance and have a line ready to go. Sometimes it was a very good line, but it wasn’t organic to what was happening. We don’t do that anymore. Now, I’m watching the dance and responding to it and what I felt about it.� —Dancing With the Stars host, Tom Bergeron on how his show has adapted in light of the writers strike [AP]

“You know Corey, it’s a lot of goddamned work being a drug addict.� —Hunter S. Thompson to his former assistant [NYP]

“The record industry doesn’t have a fucking clue how to make money. It’s only their fault for letting foxes get into the henhouse and then wondering why there’s no eggs or chickens. Every little college kid, every freshly-scrubbed little kid’s face should have been sued off the face of the earth. They should have taken their houses and cars and nipped it right there in the beginning. Those kids are putting 100,000 to a million people out of work. How can you pick on them? They’ve got freckles. That’s a crook. He may as well be wearing a bandit’s mask.� —Gene Simmons [Billboard]