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.

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

I was approached by Oxfam to go to Mali as their ambassador and get involved in their various initiatives out there. But I felt that was missing the point of using me, a musician

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

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

Change terrifies people. They like new, but they don't like new with change.

I've always known I'm incredibly special. All my life. You know? It's not a big deal.

Oasis were like the bullies I had to put up with at school.

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

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

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.

I will do anything. Anything, Blaire, just to be near you. I can’t think about anything else. I can’t focus on anything. So never think you’re inconveniencing me. You need me, I’m there.

Sticking with a marriage. That's true grit, man.

There is no nature at an instant.

Life for most people is a bad dream. They live in pain, grabbing at what they can for pleasure. As they grow old, they despair. Things don't work out the way you planned.

I'm not an artist. I tell inappropriate stories and jokes and I try to make people laugh.

surrenderin is unimaginably more dangerous than struggling for survival!

My own grandmother went to great lengths to make sure I knew simple things like how and when to open the door for a lady. And the best thing my mama taught me was to pray.

Break your pitcher against a rock. We don't need any longer to haul pieces of the ocean around.

Sustainable development is not an option! It is the only path that allows all of humanity to share a decent life on this, one planet. Rio+20 gives our generation the opportunity to choose this path.

It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor.