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

I was going through a break up. I was depressed... I really did need to do something. Recording an album was a great escape. I don't know what would have happened if I wouldn't have started to work.

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

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

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.

Well, as resources inevitably disappear [in Africa], people have to make do with a lot less. You have to be much more ingenious with a lot less, and accept that you can't get your perfect tuna sandwich on a street corner.

Each individual has their own opinions about whether war is an answer to any problems. Personally I think it's a waste of time, but I think more importantly, that it's is an issue that we haven't had any say in. That's why I feel so strongly about it. I don't feel like we've really been given any choice in this matter. I think if you had a referendum tomorrow, Tony Blair would have no choice but to call off the war.