Goldie

“I've always seen music as colours, with basses maybe translating to dark blues, and trebles as yellows and ochres and a general sense of lights coming through.”

“It's very important to understand how the trauma of a life drives the music to really mean something.”

“Art and music is so important for young people - the arts need to be supported and I think there are so many Clifford Prices out there like me.”

“My whole thing with EDM is, if you have integrity and yet you regress in how you've been as an artist, there's something not quite right there. If you're just here to get paid, I find that very culturally indifferent.”

“I'd like to make my own line of emojis to be honest.”

“Timeless' dealt with the integrity of what drum'n'bass was about, but 'Saturnz Return' was the mischievous kid in me doing something completely the opposite.”

“I obviously felt a very strong need to be a part of a family. Looking at trains and thinking 'These kids are writing their names from one end of the city to the other,' I finally felt like I'd found one.”

“My life's like a sonar ping that bounces all over the place.”

“I experienced Hip-Hop first-hand in the Bronx with the boys in New York; people like the Rock Steady Crew and The Dynamic Rockers, I looked at it for what it really was.”

“Reinvention is the biggest gift I've been given. I've gone from graffiti artist to jewellery maker, urban musician to conductor.”

“The music I make is for the inner city.”

“Me and Wiley have got a lot in common. And not just the fact that we're both a bit nuts.”

“Impermanence is the greatest gift anyone can have.”

“Creating art is like being sick - you bring up all your innermost thoughts, and then you have to ask yourself why you're doing it.”

“I use the same big studios that everybody else uses, but my attitude once inside is that of a total barbarian.”

“Songwriting for me is about zooming into the canvas, not songwriting in a typical sense.”

“I'm ahead of fashion: my clothes aren't fashionable at the time, but they become so. I set trends.”

“Music and art well and truly saved my life really - the light switched on when I discovered art.”

“Technology is not my master; when I use technology, I take it for a joyride.”

“Mother' is something people can't swallow. It was about me visualising my connection with my mother, my journey through her belly, and it's 60 minutes long - it was never going to be understood by the masses.”