More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.

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

The whole Gorillaz concept is one for mavericks; it's a way for people who never have a chance to work together being able to ally behind the cartoons.

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

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

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

Well, as resources inevitably disappear [in Africa], people have to make do with a lot less. You have to be much more ingenious with a lot less, and accept that you can't get your perfect tuna sandwich on a street corner.