Blur Quotes
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The fact that file sharing goes on, and is as popular as it is, is an incredibly positive thing for the music industry. The fact is that music is so popular that people are willing to break the law to get it.
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It's a bit loose and the people in my group have got other groups. They don't have to have a total allegiance to me. I think that's really a bit weird and showing some weird insecurity.
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I liked Germany; I'm not into Berlin, it's too huge and empty and imposing, but Munich was good.
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Yes, actually. Animation's a very easy thing to watch on tour.
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I think now, more than anytime I can remember, bands are sounding pretty similar whether they're English or American, from Manchester or London... or Leeds or Welsh or Irish.
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The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now.
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I think I would much rather push the boundaries of the degradation that the characters face.
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The older I get, the more interesting I find lawyers and accountants.
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I'd always wanted to be an idiot genius Soho alcoholic.
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Jack Daniels makes us all puke.
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There's always been a hip-hop element to my trousers.
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I think it's better if blokes can admit that they can have crushes on other blokes. I've probably had crushes but never really sexual crushes on men.
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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.
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It's mostly Mars Bars and peanuts and cheese and you go to the fridge and there's Red Bull and Beer. It's not like people are holding me down and pouring beer in my face.
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You know Manchester is always a bit of a hard place for people coming from London, just with all the history. Manchester has this immensely huge and healthy history musically.
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I think of someone like Mariah Carey as a singer.
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I've always looked at shoes as being immensely beautiful things.
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If punk was about getting rid of hippies, then I'm getting rid of grunge.
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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.
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It's the clothes that influence the music I'm going to play.
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Manchester has it's own pride and London has it's sort of pride and sometimes we can be a bit mean to each other, but I think if we dig the music we can get on really well.
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The thing I really like about this band is that every time I walk out of my door I bump into Graham, no matter where I am! That always reassures me.
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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.
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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.