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

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.

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

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.

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.

No, every album is something like a snapshot. It only shows one moment in time. It shows what we feel and think right at that point in time, nothing more and nothing less

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