Damon Albarn

I want to be a better person in every aspect. I really don't feel I've in anyway fulfilled my potential in every area of my life. But I'm optimistic. ”

I hope we can keep doing it this way - making music and art that are pure products of our influences while not really having to let the whole celebrity side of it get in the way. Then maybe more virtual bands will come out and do the same thing. ”

If you don't see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don't know how you're going to feel about it. ”

The things that make me happy most are my family and working. ”

I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics. ”

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? ”

More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result. ”

Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that. ”

Trying to write music that's sensitive to 400 years ago takes a bit of madness, as it's such a long stretch of time. ”

I don't need to be a frontman all the time, and in fact, the older I get, the less of an urge it is inside me to play that role. I've still got it inside me, and I do occasionally allow it out. ”