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

There's need to be some sort of disturbance in your psyche for creativity to be sparked.

Change terrifies people. They like new, but they don't like new with change.

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

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.

Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that's being made all over the world.

There's always been a hip-hop element to my trousers.