If punk was about getting rid of hippies, then I'm getting rid of grunge.

No, every album is something like a snapshot. It only shows one moment in time. It shows what we feel and think right at that point in time, nothing more and nothing less

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

I was naive enough to believe it would be enough to replace the government. Well, I made fun of the people in the government and then realized that even if we got rid of them, they were replaced by exactly the same guys.

Every time I go to Africa, I see the future. I see what the Western world is going to become. It's a very futuristic place.

Oasis were like the bullies I had to put up with at school.

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