I had a breakthrough, I think my life just became calmer, I gave up drinking. My priorities changed as I had a young daughter. The group didn't want me to record for the Think Tank album... so I took it as a sign to leave.

His first released on his own Transcopic label was The Sky is Too High in 1998 a ramshackle mixture of English folk music and 1960s-style garage rock influenced by Billy Childish. After going solo full-time he released The Kiss of Morning in 2002. Damon Albarn later revealed that the song "Sweet Song" was written after he had been looking at a photograph of Coxon.

Graham Leslie Coxon (born 12 March 1969) is an English musician singer-songwriter multi-instrumentalist and painter. His artistic and musical contribution is featured on all seven of Blur's studio albums from 1991's Leisure to 2003's Think Tank. Coxon also plays several other instruments besides guitar and is notable for recording his albums single-handedly without much help from session musicians.