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Every Time I Go To Africa, I See The Future. I See What The Western World Is Going To Become. It's A Very Futuristic Place.

When You're Doing A Deal With Someone In The Southern Sahara, It's A Very Different Way Of Doing Business Than In London. You Can't Sign Them In The Usual Way Because They'd End Up Getting Ripped Off, Which Would Defeat The Object Of Setting Up A Label Like This

I Was Naive Enough To Believe It Would Be Enough To Replace The Government. Well, I Made Fun Of The People In The Government And Then Realized That Even If We Got Rid Of Them, They Were Replaced By Exactly The Same Guys.

The Cartoon Is A Metaphor Really For The Fact That It's Almost Impossible In Our Celebrity Obsessed Culture To Move Around Genres And Sort Of Change You Ideas, Change Your Face, You Know?

The Whole Gorillaz Concept Is One For Mavericks; It's A Way For People Who Never Have A Chance To Work Together Being Able To Ally Behind The Cartoons.