On 2 October 1999, artist Suzi Winstanley gave birth to their daughter, Missy, named after hip hop artist Missy Elliott. Albarn described becoming a father as "witnessing a life force" and saying:it massively changes you. It slowly sort of shaves off the unpleasant thorny bits and hopefully creates a nicely rounded... I don't know, having a kid, you just become far more, inevitably you look to the future far more and, you know, it's desperate sometimes when you have a particularly bad few weeks of the newspaper just reminding you about this is wrong, this is wrong. We've got ten more years everyone.