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

Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.

I was naive enough to believe it would be enough to replace the government. Well, I made fun of the people in the government and then realized that even if we got rid of them, they were replaced by exactly the same guys.

It's important that Oasis are rude about everybody and that they get drunk...Fair enough. It's nice, isn't it? But it's nothing to do with me. They came to see us in Manchester and they were very pleasant boys. Very nice. I'd like to see that as a quote. Oasis are very nice boys.

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.

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

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