3862 Days: The Official History of Blur

'Damon's a hard person to disagree with a lot of the time. Meetings would just degenerate into scraps between them. Balfe would say, 'Damon, you dickhead, you can't do that', or he'd say to all of us, 'You can't get that fucking drunk. be a bit clever - pretend you're that drunk.''

'Seymour's a pretty crap name, in our opinion. It makes you sound like an indie anorak band. A gay indie anorak band.' Then he stopped and looked around, horrified, and said, 'None of you are gay, are you?'

Alex was academically excellent, gaining thirteen O levels. 'I didn't study art or music - that was what you did if you couldn't do physics and chemistry'