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'Gorilla Man' is a composite of a few individuals, but the song itself was actually inspired by James Taylor. I spied his 'Gorilla' album laying on my floor and in some altered state, instantly started singing the chorus. It was fun to write. There's an old notebook with at least three more verses in it somewhere.

I've grown up listening to Gorillaz, so for me to, like, be asked to be on the album is an honour.

Well, our songwriting process is pretty collective.

I think that songwriting changed when groups started spending more time in the studio.

It's unfortunate we've never been just songwriters.

I think when we were starting out, it was more about imitating our songwriting heroes. We would try to write songs like Neil Finn, or we would try to write songs like Ray Davies, or we would try to write songs like Glenn Tilbrook.

I think MTV put a huge dent in the songwriting craft.

We influence singing but never really songwriting.

We became the songs we wrote.