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We did do the whole of the live suite from 'Fly From Here,' and that was very enjoyable to do. In fact, that is actually our longest piece of music, I think, that we'd ever done.

As opposed to touring for three years and then going into the studio and writing an album, I think this record is representative of a lot of everyday people.

We were really motivated to do something with this record overseas, even though I hate touring.

When we came off the tour for the last album, we started on this one. We've just been chipping away at it. We're not in that much of a hurry, because when we release a Blur album, that's a three year promotion and touring cycle.

I think a lot of it is that we used to tour so much that we never really had time to write songs.

Each album takes two or two-and-a-half years to finish between recording and touring. It's like being with an old boyfriend every single night watching the same things on TV. There is a world out there going on that I'm missing.

I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.

Usually, when we go out, it's because we made a new studio album, and that becomes the focus of the tour throughout the world for a year or so.

I think we could have done a lot more great music, so I was disappointed that we didn't continue making records and touring, but it's hard to argue with 10 good years.

I can see that if this was an album done 10 or 15 years ago we could see we were moving on to some place else.