If Punk Was About Getting Rid Of

When You're Doing A Deal With Someone In The Southern Sahara, It's A Very Different Way Of Doing Business Than In London. You Can't Sign Them In The Usual Way Because They'd End Up Getting Ripped Off, Which Would Defeat The Object Of Setting Up A Label Like This

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 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?

A Lot Of Gorillaz Songs Were Very Personal. I Mean, That's Why It Was Interesting, Because It Wasn't Music Being Made For A Cartoon. It Was Something Different. It Was A Much More Emotional Affair. I Wasn't Necessarily Thinking In The Third-person Then.

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.