In the Sixties people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, people take Prozac to make it normal.
Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.
Change terrifies people. They like new, but they don't like new with change.
I've always known I'm incredibly special. All my life. You know? It's not a big deal.
There's need to be some sort of disturbance in your psyche for creativity to be sparked.
Oasis were like the bullies I had to put up with at school.
If punk was about getting rid of hippies, then I'm getting rid of grunge.
As a musician usually music is your way out.
The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie
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.
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.
And there are no stars and that you're never really sure who's doing what and what voice is what and, you know what I mean? It's supposed to be quite elusive
There's always been a hip-hop element to my trousers.
The things that make me happy most are my family and working.
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 have to wear a new T-shirt every night. I throw them into the audience. One day I'm going to go around the world and reclaim all my T-shirts
What you learn from working with other performers and musicians is invaluable, really, and can only help you grow. I mean, if you spend your whole life focusing on yourself, you're not really learning much.
Each individual has their own opinions about whether war is an answer to any problems. Personally I think it's a waste of time, but I think more importantly, that it's is an issue that we haven't had any say in. That's why I feel so strongly about it. I don't feel like we've really been given any choice in this matter. I think if you had a referendum tomorrow, Tony Blair would have no choice but to call off the war.
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
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.
My guaranteed way of sending myself into deep depression is to read music trade papers and watch MTV.
Yeah. You've seen The Sun today; I've got myself a big house, settled down. Apart from the odd night out with the New Fathers' Club, I'm a family man now.
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.
Trying to write music that's sensitive to 400 years ago takes a bit of madness, as it's such a long stretch of time.
