 But live shows are cool. I just got back into the idea of enjoying it live. |
| I'm a bit of lunatic with shoes and jackets and jeans. It's just how I am. |
| With my daughter, who at the time was one, my domestic life needed to take more precedent and really with my own self I needed to develop quite a bit more. So that put Blur down the list of priorities quite a lot by the time I came to thinking about it. |
| I think a lot of cynicism has dropped away from my shoulders since I stopped drinking. |
| I think of someone like Mariah Carey as a singer. |
| I'm still trying to discover my position on my own artwork and hopefully at this exhibition someone will come and tell me. I'm open to listening to criticism. |
| A singer for me is more like someone who is standing alone with a microphone like Scott Walker, rather than someone who is bashing a plank and is spitting all over a microphone. |
| The other guys drink, but they don't drink anywhere near what I used to. And I think they're slightly respectful of the fact that I'm off it, so it's not a problem. |
| It's a bit loose and the people in my group have got other groups. They don't have to have a total allegiance to me. I think that's really a bit weird and showing some weird insecurity. |
| It was quite nice meeting up because we went through a lot together and we haven't really seen each much other to communicate one to one for quite a long time. |
| There are a lot of people who can do it on the guitar and sing at the same time, but I think what is harder is bass players that can play the bass and sing. |
| I liked Germany; I'm not into Berlin, it's too huge and empty and imposing, but Munich was good. |
| It's the faster bands that made me want to play guitar, bands like The Jam. |
| I'm still amazed by the process of recording. |
| But those audiences in Spain, they were just so stoned. I don't like playing to audiences like that because they just don't do anything. I'm up here with my band and we're working really hard and they are just stoned. |
| When Blur first started and we were playing Manchester the Hacienda was the place to go. That was where a lot of exciting stuff was happening and London was pretty dead. |
| You know Manchester is always a bit of a hard place for people coming from London, just with all the history. Manchester has this immensely huge and healthy history musically. |
| It's mostly Mars Bars and peanuts and cheese and you go to the fridge and there's Red Bull and Beer. It's not like people are holding me down and pouring beer in my face. |
| I sing, but I don't think of myself as a singer. |
| Being a singer now I have to get all fussy... I must have my ginger and lemon and all that. |
