As a musician usually music is your way out.

I used to be younger than my producers but now I'm older than my producers and I think that works for me, that works better cause you get a good kick up the ... everyday.

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?

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

As a musician usually music is your way out.

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.

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