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

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.

The best way to get to know Africa is to go there and see what it is. To know somewhere that crazy and that magnificent, you have to spend some time among people, the rhythm of their lives.

I'm slightly ambivalent to the whole relationship between the whole advertising world and music. I think sometimes it works and sometimes it's a really bad mismatch. I think on this occasion its fine because the iPod is like your own mini-library and that can't be a bad thing. It promotes eclecticism and that's very much what we are about so it's a good relationship.

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

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

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.