Explore Quotes by Damon Albarn

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

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.

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

If punk was about getting rid of hippies, then I'm getting rid of grunge.

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?

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

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

I can't be bothered anymore about giving songs titles.

As a musician usually music is your way out.

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

The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie

In the Sixties people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, people take Prozac to make it normal.

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

Each individual has their own opinions about whether war is an answer to any problems. Personally I think it's a waste of time, but I think more importantly, that it's is an issue that we haven't had any say in. That's why I feel so strongly about it. I don't feel like we've really been given any choice in this matter. I think if you had a referendum tomorrow, Tony Blair would have no choice but to call off the war.

There's always been a hip-hop element to my trousers.

My guaranteed way of sending myself into deep depression is to read music trade papers and watch MTV.

It's important that Oasis are rude about everybody and that they get drunk...Fair enough. It's nice, isn't it? But it's nothing to do with me. They came to see us in Manchester and they were very pleasant boys. Very nice. I'd like to see that as a quote. Oasis are very nice boys.

Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that's being made all over the world.

The whole period has taught me that I enjoy being part of an ensemble rather than just a front man. Don't get me wrong - I enjoy that too, but I get more enjoyment out of really listening to everyone.