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

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.

As a musician usually music is your way out.

Your life is a book. Everyone could read it.

My vision for Scotland is one in which we fight together for the values we are care about: equality, fairness and social justice. Those values are the same whether you live in Dumfries or Carlisle.

Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.

I shoot in Mexico, but I can shoot in India, anywhere. I have no nationality myself. My nationality is the planet.

I see the progress typical in some of my poems as starting with something simple and moving into something more demanding. This is certainly the pattern of weird poetry.

The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.

Don't be afraid to step out, have dreams, have visions, have hopes and always, always, always believe in miracles.

A city where everyone seemed to live in a bungalow on a broad avenue lined with palm, pepper or eucalyptus trees, where there was never any snow.

I think it's a mistake to rely too much on any one economic factor. It's why investors try to spread their portfolio round.

Even the least work done for others awakens the power within.