Blur Quotes
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A singer for me is more like someone who is standing alone with a microphone like Scott Walker, rather than someone who is bashing a plank and is spitting all over a microphone.
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I'm a bit of lunatic with shoes and jackets and jeans. It's just how I am.
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I'd always wanted to be an idiot genius Soho alcoholic.
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I think I would much rather push the boundaries of the degradation that the characters face.
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Yes, actually. Animation's a very easy thing to watch on tour.
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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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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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The older I get, the more interesting I find lawyers and accountants.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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It's the clothes that influence the music I'm going to play.
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I'm an English songwriter/composer, working in Mandarin and trying to find something about Chinese culture that I really relate to and respect and feel some genuine emotions for - and it's quite hard, the pentatonic scale, and that, in a way, is why I think it works. Because I'm forced to limit myself to quite strict rules about what I did. Maybe that's how I avoided pastiche.
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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.