Damon Albarn

No, every album is something like a snapshot. It only shows one moment in time. It shows what we feel and think…

— Damon Albarn

China is one of those vast, continental conglomerates that... I mean, if they were to start a tourist trade in China, they'd…

— Damon Albarn

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…

— Damon Albarn

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

— Damon Albarn

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

— Damon Albarn

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

— Damon Albarn

I want to be a better person in every aspect. I really don't feel I've in anyway fulfilled my potential in every…

— Damon Albarn

I enjoyed history at school. I'd always had a sense of pagan England.

— Damon Albarn

I like to go to Africa purely with something to do. I'm not very comfortable getting into an armor-plated Land Rover and…

— Damon Albarn

I spent two years figuring out how I could turn it into something that would satisfy me as a musician but also…

— Damon Albarn

I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country.

— Damon Albarn

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

— Damon Albarn

I used to be younger than my producers but now I'm older than my producers and I think that works for me,…

— Damon Albarn

When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London.…

— Damon Albarn

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

— Damon Albarn

The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres…

— Damon Albarn

It always struck me that Africa was, in a strange way, a futuristic place and had elements and vibes and spirits that…

— Damon Albarn

I think pop music is a great place to get new ideas across.

— Damon Albarn

I like to put my iPad on the window and leave it there for however long the journey is, so that I'm…

— Damon Albarn

Every time I go to Africa, I see the future. I see what the Western world is going to become. It's a…

— Damon Albarn

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

— Damon Albarn

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

— Damon Albarn

Danger Mouse is now working on a bunch of other records, translating his ideas about remixing into all sorts of other projects.

— Damon Albarn

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

— Damon Albarn

Well, as resources inevitably disappear [in Africa], people have to make do with a lot less. You have to be much more…

— Damon Albarn