I can't be bothered anymore about giving songs titles.

A lot of Gorillaz songs were very personal. I mean, that's why it was interesting, because it wasn't music being made for a cartoon. It was something different. It was a much more emotional affair. I wasn't necessarily thinking in the third-person then.

Change terrifies people. They like new, but they don't like new with change.

Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that's being made all over the world.

Trying to write music that's sensitive to 400 years ago takes a bit of madness, as it's such a long stretch of time.

There's always been a hip-hop element to my trousers.

When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this