Noel Gallagher - It was us that said we were gonna be the biggest band in the world. So it's us that are now to go out and prove it. And to do that I'm afraid you gotta have, you have to spend most of your life on the road. So we shot our big mouths off now we're just gonna have to go and uh, pay the consequences, aren't we?

Norris - Some of the consequences so far on their current U.S. tour have been identified flying objects -- like coins and even shoes -- hurled at the band by over-zealous fans.

Noel Gallagher - You Americans, you like taking your shoes off and throwing them at people who are playing music for you. Now I can't, I can't understand it. I mean I've never been to. I've been to some concerts in my life. Some that are really. really bad, and some that are really, really good, and some that are average. But I've never ever once bent down and untied my shoe and took it off and thrown it out there at the singer. It's weird.

Norris - Oasis aren't having any of it. They stormed off the stage at a recent show after a fly-by shoeing.

Noel Gallagher - There's no point in you standing up there sort of dodging shoes all night when you're trying to put on a show for the 95 percent of the people who are behaving themselves. And we asked the crowd very politely to stop it or we'd leave and they didn't so we left.

Liam Gallagher - When I'm allowed to do the job I think it's good. Yeah I'm happy. When I'm not allowed to do the job I'm not happy. Meaning like when we go on and do four songs and come off with a shoe comin' out me ear.

Norris - Besides throwing shoes, the band has found that U.S. audiences have other distinct traits.

Bonehead - When you go to England the crowd jump up and down or go side to side. You go to America and they (just mosh) fly over each other's heads, you know what I mean? They do a bit of that.

Noel Gallagher - We always get people moaning after gigs going, "You guys didn't do an encore." It's like, so, you know. "You only played for an hour or something." It's like, so, what more did you want for ten dollars or however much it is, you know what I mean? What did you want, blood?

Fan - Liam is a sex god more than anyone in the world.

Norris - When you play night after night, do you get tired of the same material and are you anxious to new songs?

Liam Gallagher - No, cause you can always play it better. Even "Supersonic", the first song we had, you know what I mean? You can always play a certain song better.Liam Gallagher - We just play our music and then we should be judged as musicians. And bloody good fine ones at that!

Norris - Are there any places in this country you would not like to travel to?

Noel Gallagher - Ah, yes. Um, places where, "Got any barbers where you come from, boy? Do you boys like country music?" You know. Out, out there in them, you know, in them weird little truck stops where you get to at like six in the mornin', everybody's on the bus going "I'm fuckin' not going in there." You know what I mean? There ain't a chance of me going in there. Old geezers with snakeskin basbeball caps on backwards, chewing tobacco. (spits)"Where in the hell'd you get that accent from?"

Norris - What about hotel life?

Liam Gallagher - No, terrible. Hotel food, dreadful. Room service, terrible. But bein' in a band is great.

Norris - Oasis have set their sights on the future -- with more touring planned and a new record sometime next year -- if they make it to next year.

Noel Gallagher - A year from now there will be a new album. Or at least a new single. And, um, we'll be in the studio hopefully a year from now, uh, fighting over what, what the record is gonna sound like in the studio. Fighting and arguing, uh, and splitting up of course you know.

Noel Gallagher - I've left once. Yeah, um, a couple of weeks. Shouldn't have come back. The biggest mistake I ever made was comin' back. Cause "Morning Glory" would have been my first solo album and I would have had all the fucking money.