"I was a superhero in the '90s. I said so at the time." This statement from Liam Gallagher sums up what I used to hate about Oasis and its brash young lead singer — and why I love him to death now. You see, I was there. The "better than the Beatles" comments used to make me puke. Then again, I was listening to 311 at the time and had hair like Anthony Kiedis, so what the hell did I know?

It took a few pals to turn me onto not only the melodic genius of the group, but how superbly outrageous the Gallagher brothers were every damned time they opened their mouths. A quick web search will turn up a host of pages just filled with some of the most absurd rock-star quotes from them both. One only has to look at the headlines now to see that their hilarious cocky brilliance is alive and well today.

Liam, out doing press for his band Beady Eye's sophomore album, BE, recently pissed off a whole lot of people for slogging Daft Punk, going so far as to say that he could write "Get Lucky," the French duo's warm, catchy single, "in a fking hour." He also dared them to take off their helmets and basically meet him in the street. Whoa boy, did that strike a nerve, yet I've noticed that some of the same people who are pissy about it are also the same ones who have trashed the new Daft Punk album, Randon Access Memories, and their robot lords' turn to progressive soft rock/disco.

It takes a certain special someone to cut through that special kind of indignation — and his name is Liam fking Gallagher! Thank God someone out there is acting like a rock star and taking the piss out of his contemporaries. It doesn't begin and end with Daft Punk either.

Liam on Mumford & Sons: "Everyone looks like they've got fking nits and eat lentil soup with their sleeves rolled up... I wouldn't put any posters up of any band if I was a 16-year-old lad. There's none of that sitting down on fking stools for me, sweetheart."

Liam on Radiohead: "I heard that fking Radiohead record [The King Of Limbs] and I just go, 'What?!' I like to think that what we do, we do fking well. Them writing a song about a fking tree? Give me a fking break! A thousand-year-old tree? Go fk yourself!"

The list goes on. To many, these are fighting words. I for one could give a crap about either of those bands, but even if he said something about a group I love, it still wouldn't matter. This is comedy gold any which way I look at it. I would literally buy a book that just had Liam Gallagher quotes in it.

The star recently made headlines for slogging his brother Noel for being a "conniving little bastard," something that should surprise no one given their turbulent history. When the elder Gallagher turned in a surprisingly awkward performance backing up Blur, there was Liam on Twitter to take the piss out of his kin:

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Don’t know what’s worse RKID sipping champagne with a war criminal or them backing vocals you’ve just done for BLUE ! LG x — Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) March 25, 2013

(The "war criminal" refers to Noel's comfy meeting with Tony Blair in 1997.)

In the end, some will never swallow their annoyance with either of the Gallaghers, but I ask you, like John Turturro in Miller's Crossing, to "look into your heart" — or at the very least, look into your sense of humor. Because if you aren't seeing the wit in these dudes, then we just aren't going to see eye-to-eye. In fact, the more pissy you are about Liam, the more I'll end up laughing, which might even make you more annoyed at both of us, so maybe don't listen to me. In fact, keep it up. You're fueling the Gallagher fire and giving me oh-so-many more laughs to look forward to.

Listen to Beady Eye's "Flick of the Finger" off their new album BE below:

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