Jay Kay Quotes
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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.
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In my mind, there's a time and a place for putting your foot down.
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I may be the prat in the hat, that's cool, but I drive an Aston Martin DB5.
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Every now and again I need to get away from everything. I'm quite a hidey-hole kind of a guy.
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I am a bit old-school.
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Getting an award on Top Gear is better than getting a Grammy.
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I don't watch myself on TV, I don't read the news clippings about me, so when people come up and say, 'What about that story last week?' I go, 'I didn't even know there was.'
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The ability to last more than six minutes - isn't that what all men want?
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Well, I'm British. I'm proud to be British and I love this country. I'm going nowhere.
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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.
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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?
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I can do the equivalent of 150 miles per hour and not get stopped. I could quite happily pursue people down the motorway in my helicopter.
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I know all we're doing is travelling without moving. Speed freak faster than a speedin' bullet, slow down. If I don't, I might just lose it, locked up. You've got me honey, locked up under heavy brakin', yeah. You know I've got to hang on, drive too fast, I might be last.
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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.
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I wanted to use a totally different part of my brain. It's quite scary at times. I went for learning to fly because it was most difficult of all. The insurance man just sat there and licked his lips when I told him.
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I think it is easy for people to build up an image of what I'm about. I consider myself quite a nice chappy really. I'm decent to people, I stay in and listen to Radio 4.
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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!
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Your private life is your private life and you keep it to yourself. You get more respect that way.
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How is the economy supposed to recover when people can't afford to fill the tank?
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This will be the racing competition to end all racing competitions, .. I am extremely pleased to be working with Electronic Arts on this exciting opportunity giving music and gaming fans the chance to live the Need for Speed TM experience.
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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.
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I am quite fussy about clothes.
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The mid-life crisis is just those times when you're not so into the things you were when you were younger.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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