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

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

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.

The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.

The sweetest two words are 'next time.' The sourest word is 'if.'

...With stories even a page can take me hours, but the truth seems to flow out as fast as I can get it down.

You are a being composed of light, love, and intelligence.

We never broke up. As long as I'm living and as long as Chuck D is living, Public Enemy is always going to be alive.

Short absence quickens love; long absence kills it.

Men of different tastes have different pursuits.

It's a book that makes me laugh and think - it would be very hard to like someone who didn't enjoy Candide!

I, a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.

I wouldn't go down the route of having an assistant. I don't want to be like that. I want to be normal.