Damon Albarn Quotes

In the Sixties people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, people take Prozac to make it normal.

I was approached by Oxfam to go to Mali as their ambassador and get involved in their various initiatives out there. But I felt that was missing the point of using me, a musician

Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.

Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that's being made all over the world.

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.

Oasis were like the bullies I had to put up with at school.

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

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.

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

As a musician usually music is your way out.

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

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.

My guaranteed way of sending myself into deep depression is to read music trade papers and watch MTV.

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

The best way to get to know Africa is to go there and see what it is. To know somewhere that crazy and that magnificent, you have to spend some time among people, the rhythm of their lives.

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

If punk was about getting rid of hippies, then I'm getting rid of grunge.

The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres and sort of change you ideas, change your face, you know?

I can't be bothered anymore about giving songs titles.

The things that make me happy most are my family and working.

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

Danger Mouse is now working on a bunch of other records, translating his ideas about remixing into all sorts of other projects.

I was going through a break up. I was depressed... I really did need to do something. Recording an album was a great escape. I don't know what would have happened if I wouldn't have started to work.

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.

I used to be younger than my producers but now I'm older than my producers and I think that works for me, that works better cause you get a good kick up the ... everyday.

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.

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.

I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics