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

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.

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.

In the Sixties people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, people take Prozac to make it normal.

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

I've always known I'm incredibly special. All my life. You know? It's not a big deal.