What you learn from working with other performers and musicians is invaluable, really, and can only help you grow. I mean, if you spend your whole life focusing on yourself, you're not really learning much.

There's need to be some sort of disturbance in your psyche for creativity to be sparked.

I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics

The whole Gorillaz concept is one for mavericks; it's a way for people who never have a chance to work together being able to ally behind the cartoons.

The things that make me happy most are my family and working.

Danger Mouse is now working on a bunch of other records, translating his ideas about remixing into all sorts of other projects.

I'm an English songwriter/composer, working in Mandarin and trying to find something about Chinese culture that I really relate to and respect and feel some genuine emotions for - and it's quite hard, the pentatonic scale, and that, in a way, is why I think it works. Because I'm forced to limit myself to quite strict rules about what I did. Maybe that's how I avoided pastiche.