What you learn from working with other performers and musicians is invaluable, really, and can only help you grow. I mean, if you spend your whole life focusing on yourself, you're not really learning much.

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

The things that make me happy most are my family and working.

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.

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

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