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
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It's not like my old self - I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.
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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.
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Whether people like it or not, China is incredibly important to the future of mankind. For me, this is something that we all need to have intelligent discussions about in America, in Britain, in Europe.
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I enjoyed history at school. I'd always had a sense of pagan England.
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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.
I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country.
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I never really want to leave it as an inspiration; I just can't get enough of it.
I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.
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I feel John Peel was somebody that we could all trust. Throughout his life, he gave people a sense of a bigger world out there.
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On Blur bassist Alex James: I used to punch Alex a lot. He used to say really annoying things. I think he liked being punched.
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It's also why I don't print lyrics anymore. I figure if you can't get the feeling across adequately with the song, then you've failed anyway.
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The concert was all about raising awareness, but Peter looked like he was having trouble raising his own awareness - he looked wasted,
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I used to go to work and take heroin in the studio and then stop when I came home,
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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.