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

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 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

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

Every time I go to Africa, I see the future. I see what the Western world is going to become. It's a very futuristic place.

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.

As a musician usually music is your way out.