Damon Quotes:

After I lost my virginity I walked home and had a nice cup of tea and a fancy bun.

I used to get away with murder 'cause I had big blue eyes and a blond fringe. I'd be wheeled around in this pram and grannies would queue up to tweak my cheeks and say nice things about me.

I don't feel anything with a passion. I'm not a very passionate bloke. I can't bring myself to actually believe in passion.

It's slightly alarming that I get letters which don't have my address on them - just Damon Albarn, London - and they get to me!

Graham Quotes:

On Damon:

If he goes on about football and page three girls that means we all get associated with it. I hate football and I hate page three girls, but people always want to hear Damon's opinion.

I used to around and see him and he'd play this weird stuff that was endless piano, with no singing in it at all. It was just nuts.

We used to hang around the music block, mainly because that was where the lads never went. They'd be off on the field playing football and beating people up. I suppose we were the school freaks in a way but never had long hair, nothing like that.

Damon wasn't liked at school and I thought he was a vain wanker. I think I just got off on his total mad-headedness.

Damon? Sexy? He's about as sexy as a stuffed fish, pal.

On Alex:

I hate a lot of things that Alex stands for I don't want people to think it's what this band is about. All that Groucho Club bollocks and him going on about birds and boozing all the time, I hate that.

On Life:

I THINK CHRIS EVANS IS THE BIGGEST WANKER THAT EVER LIVED. Print that in capitals please.

I like it when girls go "Fuck me, fuck me, fuck me.

Japanese audiences dye their hair blond, dress in Adidas zip-ups and Fred Perry tops-and then they put ties on as well.

I hate the video clip for 'Country House'. I love the song but the association with it becomes Page three and Benny Hill instead of Blur.

Spiders are cool but I am still scared of them. But I don't kill 'em.

My old flat's covered with carcasses of mosquitoes all over the walls. Because I never bothered to clear up, as a warning.

On Music And Art:

I've always been hideously noisy onstage - that's where I get my own back.

We're quite strict about being musically correct, using the right chords.

When we finish one album, we immediately start thinking of the next one.

It's a lot rawer, it may shock some people, but a lot of people will really love it. It's a lot to do with our 'world'. (Talking about the album 'blur')

Oh, the guys do have this one obsession. I have to draw the logo on so many boys' bums, on their jeans pockets. It's outrageous.

On Drinking:

[After first time drinking as a teen] I crapped on my jumper. I wanted to poo and I forgot it was tied around my waist. I had to throw it into someone's garden.

Jack Daniels makes us all puke.

We used to drink so much. I'd have a bottle of under the chair my amp was sat on, and I'd swig my way through that.

Of course, I'm a hedonist. What else is there to live for? The rest is just killing time.

Another time, we all went out and got drunk on champagne and Jim Beam and found myself walking in the middle of Notting Hill with no hope of getting home. And then I got run over. I don't know how the fucking hell it happened, really. I just ran into the road and got biffed up in the air by this car. It was really fucking hilarious. I was brought to by this copper and I just said, 'Am I dead?' I had such an awesome time! I was living in these college halls, and when I got back I was concussed to fuck, I had blood on my face and I was limping and blabbering on about nothing. I had to be sedated. I was absolutely off my head. I started making sandwiches and cutting my fingers and there was blood everywhere. Just amazing...sedation...wow.

I don't like drugs - never liked drugs. I'm not a very good creature for things like that, I haven't got enough confidence.

On Himself And His Reputation:

Do I scare people? Perhaps a bit. Alex does, too, although in a different way...he's just so laidback. I'm not. The other week, my current girlfriend was giving me a hard time, and I sat against the wardrobe, and I just started bashing my head against it till I started getting fuzzy vision.

On Fame:

You become totally aware of your every action. It's a very weird thing not to be able to walk to the shops without thinking of yourself as the guitarist from Blur walking to the shops.

I don't feel famous at all. I've noticed it, and I suppose it's become an effort to be unfamous. It's crude, but the idea I have of myself is of someone who's getting pints of milk on the corner in the morning.

Alex Quotes:

On The Band: 

I didn't really notice the record that we were making. We just go in and play really hard. You go and do it and then you go, 'What on Earth have we done?' That's what you always feel.

Question: Do you ever suggest anything to Graham?
Answer: Absolutely not. Oh dear no. He'd shoot me.

I'm the bass player. I play the bass. I'm the third most important person in the studio.

Damon: People throw such bizarre things on stage.
Alex: I get hats and fags and bras in Japan.
Damon: You don't get bras in Japan.
Alex: You want to come over my side, mate.

I think we all decided to snog each other that night, me, Damon and Graham. Damon was going, 'You gotta do it, Alex! You gotta do it!' So I snogged both of them. Male bonding. I like girls; maybe I'm just scared of exploring my sexuality. I don't know. I would have thought I would have shagged Graham by now, or at least got a hand job off him or something, but there always seems to be something better to do.

Dave's the dad, Damon's the mum. And me and Graham, we're the kids.

Blur is an argument between me and Graham. It's kind of an argument that sounds nice to the ear.

On Life:

Women are better than men, and that's why we like them so much.

We're far too busy to have ambitions. Ambitions are the perogative of the bored.

England's all right, you know? We discovered light- emitting plastics.

I don't think Damon and Noel will ever get on - they're too similar. I mean, all the times Damon's been saying how great Liam is, that's just to annoy Noel, isn't it?

Of course sex and drugs are more important than rock'n'roll. I only do music when I'm bored. I'm always striving to be bone idle. It's an ambition peculiar to the English. I have no hobbies.

On Music And Art

I haven't any Freudian reasons to make art, as far as I can tell.

What do I think of Krautrock? It's a bit tedious, isn't it? A lot of it doesn't sound like music. It sounds like maths.

Bands aren't just about music, they're about everything you care about when you're sixteen- good haircuts, your mates, sex, smoking, drinking and just looking good.

You have to make your life into a piece of art, really, don't you?

On Drinking:

Ah, yes, Monday evening. Very nice. Brings out a more wreckless class of drinker.

You can't go wrong really. Hangovers take on many forms, but they can be extremely creative. You take no shit when you've got a hangover. Because you feel so crap, you know exactly what you want. And music does have that anodyne quality, it's a sort of analgesic, and if you're feeling like absolute grim.

I probably drink too much but I can handle it. I can suck corporate cock when I'm sober and I can do it when I'm pissed...I can do The Times crossword when I'm pissed! But having one day a week off is good because you shouldn't get too used to doing everything drunk.

On Himself And His Reputation:

The roistering lounge lizard? Yeah. I can't think of anything else to do.

I think I probably aspire to being bone idle.

I love the touring. I can't think of anything better to do, really, than see the whole world, and play my guitar and drink beer. I'm just trying to get the best pizza in each town. And talk to the prettiest girls.

Dave Quotes:

On The Band:

It got to the point on our interminable US tour where one morning we all had a black eye. Within a three day period, we'd all managed to twat each other.

It's interesting that all of us have got one sister and none of us have brothers. And we do look after each other like brothers.

When you're on stage it's such a rush when everything's going properly. Like we played at Brixton just before Christmas and for me it was just like a big orgasm all the way trough the show. So how can you sit still through that? You'd just explode, wouldn't you?

Being in a band isn't all I can do. I could've earned a pretty good living out of being a computer programmer. I'm equally good at that as I am at this.

On Hobbies:

If flying was at all dangerous then I wouldn't do it - I'm not a Bungee jumper.

A plane is about as expensive as a sports car. In fact they are probably as expensive as a second-hand sports car. It sounds a lot more flash than it actually is.

On Life:

"You don't have to go now, sit here and tell me how great I am!"

We don't eat anything with eyes, except potatoes.

If you want to impress a woman, just say 'barometer'!

On Drinking:

[When I was drinking] I was absolutely out of control: a mad, paranoid, schizophrenic nutter. I think me being beserk was comforting for everybody else 'cos it meant they could do what the fuck they wanted and still not be as bad as Dave."

I don't think anyone who's ever counted drinking amongst their hobbies has never kissed a man.