Damon Albarn
Damon Albarn
Damon Albarn, OBE,is an English musician, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer. He is the lead singer of the alternative rock band Blur as well as co-founder, vocalist, principal songwriter, and instrumentalist of the virtual band Gorillaz...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth23 March 1968
CityWhitechapel, England
special bigs deals
I've always known I'm incredibly special. All my life. You know? It's not a big deal.
crazy people way
The best way to get to know Africa is to go there and see what it is. To know somewhere that crazy and that magnificent, you have to spend some time among people, the rhythm of their lives.
mtv paper way
My guaranteed way of sending myself into deep depression is to read music trade papers and watch MTV.
creativity needs disturbance
There's need to be some sort of disturbance in your psyche for creativity to be sparked.
hip-hop elements hips
There's always been a hip-hop element to my trousers.
world futuristic western
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.
fun believe government
I was naive enough to believe it would be enough to replace the government. Well, I made fun of the people in the government and then realized that even if we got rid of them, they were replaced by exactly the same guys.
war thinking issues
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.
school oasis bully
Oasis were like the bullies I had to put up with at school.
careers important feels
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.
ideas records danger
Danger Mouse is now working on a bunch of other records, translating his ideas about remixing into all sorts of other projects.
thinking snapshots albums
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
song giving titles
I can't be bothered anymore about giving songs titles.
real lying people
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