Arctic Monkeys' Alex Turner: 'I'll never write chip shop rock and roll again'

Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner has explained that he tends to write bad lyrics while on tour.

The Suck It and See star admitted that in the past he has conjured up "too many terrible lyrics" for songs while on the road.

"I don't really [write while touring] anymore," he told Absolute Radio. "You know, we come up with a few little ideas and some sound checks and that, but I've kind of wrote too many terrible lyrics touring round so I decided to stop."

The 25-year-old singer-songwriter also revealed that the content of the band's first two albums, Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not and Favourite Worst Nightmare, are a distant memory.

Turner added: "It's hard to do the old chip shop rock and roll; once you've done that once then you don't want to hang around that many chippies any more.

"I think that's natural. I couldn't ever write about my surroundings in the same way that I did back then, because if I did that now, what would them songs be about?"

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