I’m not a monarchist. But I’m English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country. Damon Albarn Read Quote
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? Damon Albarn Read Quote
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. Damon Albarn Read Quote
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. Damon Albarn Read Quote
More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we’re getting much more interesting art as a result. Damon Albarn Read Quote
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. Damon Albarn Read Quote
China is one of those vast, continental conglomerates that… I mean, if they were to start a tourist trade in China, they’d just bus people in from another province, you know what I mean? They’re very self-contained. Damon Albarn Read Quote
I’m English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can’t really escape that – it’s there. Damon Albarn Read Quote
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. Damon Albarn Read Quote
I’m a working musician, so it’s what I do. I kind of always have lots of plates spinning, and it’s the ones that keep spinning the longest that I end up doing. Damon Albarn Read Quote
