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.

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

The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie

The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres and sort of change you ideas, change your face, you know?

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

As a musician usually music is your way out.

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.