With my daughter, who at the time was one, my domestic life needed to take more precedent and really with my own self I needed to develop quite a bit more. So that put Blur down the list of priorities quite a lot by the time I came to thinking about it.

I liked Germany; I'm not into Berlin, it's too huge and empty and imposing, but Munich was good.

I think of someone like Mariah Carey as a singer.

I'm a bit of lunatic with shoes and jackets and jeans. It's just how I am.

When Blur first started and we were playing Manchester the Hacienda was the place to go. That was where a lot of exciting stuff was happening and London was pretty dead.

My hobby is my job. it's a jobby!

It was quite nice meeting up because we went through a lot together and we haven't really seen each much other to communicate one to one for quite a long time.