On Barbaric: “It may be a few lost love or it can be about abruptly and unexpectedly getting rid of melancholy. And even in case you understand that love not exists, the belief is double-edged. As a result of it also means clarity. And before you ask: this very lonely Christmas, about which I sing in Barbaric, properly, it really happened that method. The songs are already quite correct inventories of my life, I’m pretty open here on this album. Only typically the mysterious peeps across the nook.

On St. Charles Sq.: "I sing concerning the disagreeable expertise of just lately discovering myself in a hideous basement flat. I’ll spare you the small print, but I’m fairly clear in the music. I’m not going to be the first or the final to screw one thing up and need to cope with penalties.”

Damon Albarn - Berliner Morgenpost 2023