Goldie

“Junglists have something to say about the social situation.”

“I'm understanding theatre a bit more. I've learned that you go over and over stuff. There's a big element of back-story: where have the characters been before, where have they come from?”

“Your life can change in seconds.”

“Goldie has been around a lot longer than his gold teeth, than the golden locks. Not many people know me. He was a Rastafarian... They know Goldie the player, like my boys in Miami, or Goldie the graffiti writer, or Goldie the guy on the estate with the gold teeth, but nobody really knows that little boy from school, you know?”

“Mother' is not just about the physical mother but the fact of needing to be mothered, needing to have something that surrounded me.”

“You face your demons doing Bikram. You challenge them, beat them.”

“I made my first record at 27, and there are people who are 17 and 18 out there making records.”

“I grew up in Wolverhampton, but I was moved around the Midlands because I was in the care system.”

“I don't use producers, I am the producer. I use an engineer as a tool, vicariously.”

“Once you leave your ego behind and let the good light in, you shine good light back. That may be a bit Buddhist but so what.”

“Some people bought into the whole fame thing more than others, but I never did. I never felt I belonged; I wasn't confident.”

“I think drum'n'bass music did for the electronic world what graffiti did for the world of art because it was raw and everybody wanted to take from the raw.”

“In New York, I was into Kool G Rap and Polo, KRS-One, that whole big 80s boom.”

“I wasn't a nice person to meet in the back end of the 90s.”

“I've always been a big champion of saying what we do today creates tomorrow. When you're young, you don't realise all of this stuff, and from an early age I was very conscious of what was going on in my environment.”

“Music is far more than numbers to me - it's where I find peace.”

“You can be very connected, computers are great, they can get you a ticket to Venezuela in five minutes; brilliant. But if you know your music and your history, you can make that work as a tool. If you don't, you're working as a slave to it.”

“Timeless' is like the little sister, but 'Journeyman' is the big brother - it's what I'll take to the grave.”

“I see electronic music as loads of monkeys pushing buttons and me being one of them. But I think my album 'Timeless' stands the test of time.”

“Simon Cowell is the George Bush of the music industry.”