Jay Kay Quotes

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.

Every now and again I need to get away from everything. I'm quite a hidey-hole kind of a guy.

I may be the prat in the hat, that's cool, but I drive an Aston Martin DB5.

The mid-life crisis is just those times when you're not so into the things you were when you were younger.

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 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.

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.

Your private life is your private life and you keep it to yourself. You get more respect that way.

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 am quite fussy about clothes.

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

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.

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.

Getting an award on Top Gear is better than getting a Grammy.

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.

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.

In my mind, there's a time and a place for putting your foot down.

I am a bit old-school.

Well, I'm British. I'm proud to be British and I love this country. I'm going nowhere.

I learn fast and I take note of what I've been told.

I think a lot of ladies get quite scared about people like me, 'rock stars', and it can be hard to meet the right sort of person.

The ability to last more than six minutes - isn't that what all men want?

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.

How is the economy supposed to recover when people can't afford to fill the tank?

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.'