Noel Gallagher, a.k.a. The Quote Machine, called Toronto his "home away from home, really," while speaking to the Sun this week at the Air Canada Centre in a Canadian newspaper exclusive before Oasis' sold-out show.

But he said he still has a hard time wrapping his head around the fans he sometimes encounters on the street.

"Fans can be a bit hysterical, the ones that I meet anyway," said Gallagher. "And what is it with the f---in' camera? I don't know why they're f---in' taking pictures. It's a f---in' insane obsession. Everybody wants a picture. I mean, f---in' hell, what are you going to do with it? Sit and look at it all day? (says enthusiastically) 'See there's me and Noel Gallagher -- in the same picture! I had my picture taken with him -- look!'

"Great. So what?," he shrugs.

SON OF RINGO: Meanwhile, drummer Zak Starkey, who has been out on the road with Oasis, is expected to tour with The Who this year, but Noel Gallagher hope's he'll return to the fold.

"He's definitely, definitely, definitely going to record on the next (Oasis) record and definitely going to be out on the road, if he wants to," said Gallagher of Starkey.

So will the son of Ringo Starr become a permanent member of the Beatles-loving Oasis lineup?

"We always said that we'd sit down and talk about that at the end of the tour," Gallagher said. "There's no point in getting in business discussions while you're soundchecking. It just doesn't work. If he came to me tomorrow and said, 'I want to leave The Who and join you lot permanently,' I'd say, 'Brilliant. Get me your dad's autograph and you're in.' "

Gallagher met Ringo when he came to see an Oasis gig in England last year.

MARDY WHAT? Noel Gallager attempted to clear up the meaning of Mardy Bum, the title of a song by the superhot British band Arctic Monkeys -- who opened for Oasis at the ACC -- for those of us who don't live in Northern England.

"It means p---y," said Gallagher, confusing us even more given the number of meanings that particular word has.

"And it's funny because in Manchester that's called 'mardy ass,' " he continued. "But if you go over the hills to Sheffield, it's called mardy bum."

Gallagher, of course, hails from Manchester while the Monkeys are from Sheffield.

And I'm still confused.