It was quite nice meeting up because we went through a lot together and we haven't really seen each much other to communicate one to one for quite a long time.

I liked Germany; I'm not into Berlin, it's too huge and empty and imposing, but Munich was good.

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.

When Blur first started and we were playing Manchester the Hacienda was the place to go. That was where a lot of exciting stuff was happening and London was pretty dead.

There are a lot of people who can do it on the guitar and sing at the same time, but I think what is harder is bass players that can play the bass and sing.

I suppose my little Martin acoustic guitar is quickly becoming a prize possession. It's a lovely guitar. I bought it at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 2001 before I had cleaned up.

My hobby is my job. it's a jobby!

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.

Most of America don't even listen to music probably. They just go raccoon hunting or something.

I think a lot of cynicism has dropped away from my shoulders since I stopped drinking.

I've always looked at shoes as being immensely beautiful things.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.

A writer fills the paper with the pictures of perception, experience, and feeling of real and imaginative lives.

The isolated imagination is easily corrupted by theory, but the writer inside his community seldom has such a problem.

I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.

With sons and fathers, there's an inexplicable connection and imprint that your father leaves on you.

The only solution to the contradictions of capitalism entails the abolition of wage labour.

I have always been a dark writer.

Our mission is to celebrate the greatness of Creation and connect it again to the Core where it came from and to where it will go, with care, lightness, joy, reverence and love.

Every man whose business it is to think knows that he must for part of the day create about himself a pool of silence.

A little water clears us of this deed.