Damon Albarn Quotes

I think I'm a little more mature than the average guy.

I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage.

Man, I'm 31, talking like I'm 60. I really do feel in control.

In fact, I am so happy to be turning 40 and finally having a reason to take responsibility for my own behavior. It's also worked for me in terms of my physical appearance and emotional make-up and people entrusting me to bring the things a role deserves. I don't know whether that's depth or being a curmudgeon or what.

We can't express ourselves always at the time we should. Sometimes it takes time.

My ego is controlled enough that I don't have to be the focus.

How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?

If I have to be focused and watch what I say, then I have to be comfortable.

Not many people do at the age of 21 or younger even, know how to act nor could be concerned with anything other than fighting, women and money.

My ego every day is more and more polite. I tame it.

The older you get, the more yourself you can be and the less worried you are about what other people think.

I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.

I think you sort of shed skins as you go along in life. You get into your 40s, and you feel like, 'OK, no more pretending.' You get to just be who you are.

I have not changed much. I haven't gotten a big ego or anything.

I like to think I'm a very mature person.

I don't find it hard to stay humble.

When I was 27, I didn't have a clue what was going on! At that age, to have that much power and to have that much ambition is something.

People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.

When you're older and wiser a lot of the ego has gone out of the window.

Even within the last three or four years, I have a greater ability to communicate, I think. I have more courage to show the stuff... And it does take courage.

As you get older, there's a loosening of the ties to the ego and the posturing of who you are and how you behave.

One thing about being a stand-up is it's a one-man show. You gotta do everything. You're the producer, writer, director, and the actor. You just gotta be out there and perform and give your all. It's such an honest form of art that it just taught me so much, and it kind of prepared me for manhood at an early age.

The key things are about power and about growing up and realizing as you grow up that there are consequences for the choices you make, especially when you get seduced by power.

Where he tells you exactly how he views the world - just very straight Kanye, honesty that definitely gets your creativity and strong opinions out on the floor. I think it helped me find myself.

The older I get, the easier it is to be all of me.