Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.
Damon AlbarnI'm an English songwriter/composer, working in Mandarin and trying to find something about Chinese culture that I really relate to and respect and feel some genuine emotions for - and it's quite hard, the pentatonic scale, and that, in a way, is why I think it works. Because I'm forced to limit myself to quite strict rules about what I did. Maybe that's how I avoided pastiche.
Damon AlbarnIf 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.
Damon Albarn