Noel Gallagher continues to provide interview gold, after all these years.

The former guitarist/songwriter for Oasis weighed in on the year in music for 2013 for Rolling Stone, and — as expected — he was as outspoken as ever. Aside from his praise of new albums by Kanye West and Disclosure, here are some of the choice bits.

On David Bowie:

As soon as he lands in England, he’s going to get taken to the Tower of London, and they’re not going to let him out until he’s done a gig, so I don’t think he’ll ever come back.

On artists like Miley Cyrus trying to “start the debate”:

It’s just embarrassing. Be good. Don’t be outrageous. Anybody can be outrageous! I could go to the Rolling Stone office and fucking shit on top of a boiled egg, right? And people would go, “Wow, fucking hell, that’s outrageous!” But is it any good? No, because, essentially, it’s just a shit on top of a boiled egg. That’s all it is. If I was to go to your office and play you a song that I’d just written that was amazing, that would be better, wouldn’t it?

On guitar music:

I don’t think that guitar music is any better or worse than it’s ever been. There’s just a lack of exposure to it… You’ve got to find it yourself. It’s kind of like going back to what alternative music was before Oasis ruined everything by being massive.

On Arcade Fire’s concert dress code:

[Sighs] Well, what’s the point of that? Do you know what the point of that is? That is to take away from the shit disco that’s coming out of the speakers. Because everybody’s dressed as one of the Three Musketeers on acid. “What was the gig like?” “I don’t know, everyone was dressed as a teddy bear in the Seventies.” “Yeah, but what was the gig like?” “Ah, fuck knows, man, I have no idea. I was dressed as a flying saucer.” “Yeah, but what was the gig like?” “Fuck knows. I don’t know. Seen Cheech and Chong, there, though.” Not for me.