A biography for Goldiehasn’t been written yet.
“I love the Bay Area and I love San Fran. I don't know why I love it so much. Maybe it's the vibe, maybe it's the fault lines. Nah, there's something very special in the air out there.”
“If I was running a British School of classical music I'd employ Tai Chi teachers to help the conductors at the end of their lessons.”
“My perfect day is to get up at 5:30 A.M., jump on my scooter and go to the beach.”
“I had so much anger. So much anger. Particularly towards my mother. I was a really, really angry person, and it was ruining me.”
“Rob Playford is a phenomenal engineer, but he doesn't have his own ideas, he doesn't make his own music. But what he does have is a fantastic width and berth to throw loads of creative ideas at him.”
“I think albums should be dynamic, man.”
“I was never very good at marketing myself, I was very good at being explosive and making sense of something in the chaos around me.”
“Yes, I can be melancholy, but do you think I had Bing Crosby singing 'White Christmas'? I never had nothing. I didn't have all the things I wanted when I wanted them. I didn't have presents.”
“Urban breakbeat has become the mood of the '90s, like rap was in the '80s.”
“One of the best-kept secrets in Phuket is Banana beach.”
“When I was growing up in the 1980s in the Midlands, I felt abandoned and misunderstood. Then I chose drum 'n' bass and graffiti as my subcultures - which didn't really help.”
“I've been moved around my whole life and it's been documented, so if you get paid loads of money to go on TV and act like a right idiot... great stuff!”
“Bikram Yoga makes me feel 19 again.”
“I collect paint like I collect sound. And then I use layers, layers, layers.”
“When I was in the care system, I lived for skating and drawing. I lived on roller skates.”
“If I got hit by a bus tomorrow, you'd get people going: 'Oh, we should make 'Mother' into an opera, it's what he would have wanted.'”
“I grew up on Steel Pulse, Bob Marley, Public Image Ltd., Sex Pistols, The Jam and somewhere in the middle was The Specials.”
“All my experience in film has been quite fleeting and tokenesque.”
“The machinery of the music industry is that you put something into it and it could be chewed up.”
“I learned everything out of children's homes. The kids had to stick together, we had to unify, and we did that, and I think that was a great thing.”