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'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics

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.

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

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

Yeah. You've seen The Sun today; I've got myself a big house, settled down. Apart from the odd night out with the New Fathers' Club, I'm a family man now.

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.