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

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

If you don't see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don't know how you're going to feel about it.

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

I like to put my iPad on the window and leave it there for however long the journey is, so that I'm staring out, and it's staring out. We're kind of staring out together. It's very poetic to me, watching that absent-minded passing of time. You realize how much you've taken in. What is left of that memory of you staring out of the window for an hour? It's all on the iPad.

I was approached by Oxfam to go to Mali as their ambassador and get involved in their various initiatives out there. But I felt that was missing the point of using me, a musician

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.