I Love The Magic Of The Studio.

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.

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.

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.

I'm Still Amazed By The Process Of Recording.

I Love The Magic Of The Studio.