Words matter. These are the best Jay Kay Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I love being able to go on local flights when the weather is right. I’ve popped to the Isle of Wight, Cornwall and been mountain flying in Wales. When I got my licence I was over the moon, it was one of the greatest days of my life – it took two years to get!
Well, I’m British. I’m proud to be British and I love this country. I’m going nowhere.
Your private life is your private life and you keep it to yourself. You get more respect that way.
The mid-life crisis is just those times when you’re not so into the things you were when you were younger.
It’s not a case of ‘look at me in my car’; it’s more, ‘look at the car’. I like the idea of other people enjoying them, because everything has become a bit faceless and nobody likes the motor car any more.
Every now and again I need to get away from everything. I’m quite a hidey-hole kind of a guy.
I think these days a lot of the younger generation feels that the world owes them something. But you’ve got to get off your backside and you’ve got to do all the crap stuff, too.
I’m very used to stages and dressing rooms. And dare I say it, much as I like being at home, I love the buzz of a new hotel room. It never quite loses its thing.
I can find every jacket under the sun that I like. But I cannot find trousers cut the way I want them. They’re all really tight at the bottom. Nobody does a boot cut on a trouser leg. It drives me crazy.
When I listen to Radio 1 and hear five different tracks in a row using old disco samples, well that’s plagiarism, that’s taking other people’s music.
My place in Scotland is in the middle of nowhere, so you’ve just got a keyboard, guitar, a little drum machine and you know if you can work stuff out like that, if you can hammer out songs that sound good just with those three things and a voice, you’re on your way.
In my mind, there’s a time and a place for putting your foot down.
I am a bit old-school.
I’m 41 now and the right knee has got a bit of a twinge in it. I get about the stage a little less now.
I learn fast and I take note of what I’ve been told.
I mean, I could just go round and use session musicians for every song, but I don’t find that helps when it comes to setting up a band for live. Derrick has been with me for donkey’s years.
I like girls who like the countryside, put on walking boots and can bend with the wind a bit. If you’re going to live with me, you need to be able to embrace the countryside and wet dogs.
I didn’t get my first car until I was 22. It was a BMW 1602 and now I’ve got it back I’m waiting to restore it.
I have to thank my mum for kicking me out at 16 and making me stand on my own two feet – that’s how I got here.
There’s nothing classic about what’s around now. I am a bit old-school. There are some things that are never out of fashion because they just look good. But if you want classic style these days you have to get it made.
I consider myself very lucky indeed to have had the career I have. I listen to the radio now and you can’t tell artists apart.
I’m not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don’t tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art.
