Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.

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

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.

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

Yeah. You've seen The Sun today; I've got myself a big house, settled down. Apart from the odd night out with the New Fathers' Club, I'm a family man now.

The best way to get to know Africa is to go there and see what it is. To know somewhere that crazy and that magnificent, you have to spend some time among people, the rhythm of their lives.

If you don't see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don't know how you're going to feel about it.