When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this

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

I used to go to work and take heroin in the studio and then stop when I came home.

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

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.

A lot of Gorillaz songs were very personal. I mean, that's why it was interesting, because it wasn't music being made for a cartoon. It was something different. It was a much more emotional affair. I wasn't necessarily thinking in the third-person then.

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