Jay Kay Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“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.”

“Now, I'm the most impatient person that ever walked the planet. However: for the best, you always wait.”

“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.”

“I'm in this absolutely gorgeous manor house with acres of quite beautiful countryside. I've got trout in the river, an organic vegetable garden, I've got my work 40 yards from my home. I don't mind being criticised, but where are they criticising from? Which hut are they criticising me from, exactly?”

“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.”

“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.”

“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'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.”