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

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.

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

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

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.

As a musician usually music is your way out.

You winked, took the change. I should have seen it, Ed, as a sign that you were unreliable. Instead, I saw it as a sign of charming, which is why I didn't break it off right then and there.

Only where there is life can there be home.

Your tone demonstrates. . .•

actually, adv. Perhaps; possibly.

In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.

Go through the things that life gives you to go through, happily. You have to loosen the grip of time, gradually.

The holy spirit of the Spring Is working silently.

All mirrors are magical mirrors, and we never see our faces in them.

If you consider only utility, the things you build will soon be useless... nobody wants to be in it.

When you finish something of great importance to you and then it's over, you're left with this giant hole.