Quotes-not all about the music but who cares? they're funny-

"I love dogs, but I couldn't eat a whole one. Ha ha!" - Damon Albarn

"I still tread in dog's mess occasionally." - Alex James

"I'm very sexy in the morning." - Damon Albarn.

"You can disagree with someone and still be their friend."-Dave Rowntree

"We're bigger than the holes in Swiss cheese." - Graham Coxon

"There's always been a bit of a hip-hop element to my trousers." - Damon Albarn

"["Tender" is] a tribute to how important something was in my life. It's a celebration of love found and lost but not forgotten." - Damon Albarn

"The best thing about being in a band is that you can allow your insanities to develop. And get paid for it." - Alex James

"Be careful doing that floatie thing!" - Graham Coxon

"We rarely actually finished a gig, completely. There was always a point where everything... I either got trashed, I'd be sick, or somone'd get hit over the head, or the electricity would go. It was almost a sort of failure if we got to the end of a gig, really." - Damon on the early days.

"We couldn't really play that well when we were signed. We could hardly get through a full show without Damon being sick or things getting unplugged and ruined. God knows why we were signed on the strength of that." - Graham Coxon

"Women are f**king amazing creatures." - Damon Albarn

"I think all music is good really." - Alex James

"We just can't resist being silly." - Graham Coxon

"I've always known I'm incredible special and if I didn't think we were the best band in the universe I wouldn't bother." - Damon Albarn

"When I'm 60, I want to be a cool old man." - Graham Coxon

"The first time I stayed at Damon's, he took me for a drive and crashed, and then told me he didn't have a driving license - so I had to tell his mum I did it." - Alex James

"Once you've mastered the basics of one instrument, you discover that they all speak the same language. It would be great to go on the road with them all, but it's not exactly rock. Plus, you can't smoke while you are playing them." - Alex James

"I don't think anyone who has ever counted drinking amongst their hobbies has never kissed a man." - Dave Rowntree

"Being in a band is rubbish." - Damon Albarn

"The thing I really like about this band is that every time I walk out of my door I bump into Graham, no matter where I am! That always reassures me." - Alex James

"Being in a band is like being a matador. You go out there and if you pull it off the glory is quite spectacular. But at the same time noone's going to feel sorry for you if you get gorged in the stomach." - Damon Albarn

"We're just boozers, really." - Damon Albarn

"I never got along well with the lads at school, I was always called gay." - Damon Albarn

"I don't mind kissing men at all." - Damon Albarn

"We've always seen ourselves as putting on white coats and going into the lab." - Damon Albarn

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

"At the end of the day, not only do we write great songs, but we have a natural strangeness about us that makes us interesting." - Damon Albarn

"The trick with Graham is to give him the illusion he's creating a racket." - Damon Albarn

"We've always been too friendly, too clever and too good-looking for a lot of people." - Alex James

"I have to say that I find it easy to write a great hook. Sometimes I'll write something and say to myself, "It shouldn't be this easy". I don't know, the songs just come out." - Damon Albarn

"Oh dear, I think we're going to claim we've invented everything again." - Dave Rowntree

"I don't exist. Literally every day I read something that tells me I'm not real." - Damon Albarn

"We offer everything that all other bands together offer - we've got it all." - Damon Albarn

"I am rich. I f***ing am. There's no point in denying it." - Damon Albarn

"They [comets] just look good, a bit like the Spice Girls - they don't support any intelligent life." - Alex James

"What do we stand for? So we don't lie down all the time!" - Damon Albarn

"Pop people, we're pop people." - Damon Albarn

"When I think of the fans here in Canada ... I think of obsessive psychos." - Graham Coxon

"Don't talk to any funny men." - Graham Coxon

"I think art is unnecessary and too expensive. I would advise you to stop painting and start gardening or rock climbing, remember to eat lots of greens." - Alex James

"I used to go to loads of parties and when I got there Graham would be lying on the floor like a human doormat." - Damon Albarn

"Seymour was the more radical, non-bite sized, unfriendly face of Blur" - Alex James

"Melodic and slightly irrelevant." - Alex described Blur's sound of 1995.

"I like things to repulse people, to upset and move them. I don't want to give people an identity, I want to give them a crisis." - Damon Albarn

"I'm not the famous one." - Graham Coxon

"Damon's such a pop tart!" - Justine Frischmann.

"What is 40 ft long, has no pubes, and screams dead loud? The front row of a Blur concert!" - Alex James