Prologue

I wasn't nervous, I never was; don't know why I'm taking deep breaths all the time, everyone behind me was wishing me luck and giving me words of courage, of course I'm famous and the guys with me are too, we're a band by the way. I was going to take part in a very long interview about my whole life and stuff and explaining about the reason why I walk around a lot with a video camera.

I was standing outside the door waiting, waiting as if nothing was happening at all, the only things I ever heard were the voices of these two guys preparing for this interview, my own breathing, my heart beat (sorry I lied, I was nervous). All the memories trapped in my brain were just waiting to be told, except the most embarrassing moments and all that, I was thinking what might happen during this just as I was pulling my phone out of my pocket and putting it on silent in case one of the guys rung me up for a laugh, I'm saying 'guys' because in our band there's five of us: three men and me and this other girl from Japan, she was my best friend since the day I came and….him. I couldn't wait any longer; I might get pins and needles in my right foot if those interviewers take forever preparing the questions or trying to sort out a technical problem with the tape recorder.

After two minutes, I was allowed in hearing four whispers of good luck (and one in Japanese for extra). It was in the audition room in our HQ – I'm not even thinking about giving it away – there was my chair with my name on, like the ones a film director sits on in Hollywood. There were two men sitting in front of me, one of them was holding a notebook and the other was in charge of the tape recorder. They offered me some water and we were ready, then they pressed the play button and started off with the first question.

By the way, I'm not actually here to give you the whole interview transcript, seeing as it went on for a good hour and a half. I'm just going to tell you everything that had happened in the past and how I got into this band – Gorillaz.