Top 103 Quotes & Sayings by Goldie

I made my first record at 27, and there are people who are 17 and 18 out there making records.

I ran to the arts, because the arts are the one thing that would never abandon me.

I honestly believe art and music saved me. Art and music saved my life. I am blessed.

When I play in Hong Kong I go alternative, from Wu Tang Clan to 'Blue Monday,' and then for the last 45 minutes, if they deserve it, I play beautiful drum 'n' bass.

We have choices in life when we're young and I think a lot of things were stacked against me.

That's why I want to screw with the abyss of technology, play God with science, so I can hop, skip and slide back and forth through time.

If you want to talk about EDM, let's talk about Detroit underground music, Chicago house and let's talk about all the things that got us to this place. We all get on the train of dance music. We need to all respectfully look through the carriages that have come before us and realize how we got here.

Mother' is something people can't swallow. It was about me visualising my connection with my mother, my journey through her belly, and it's 60 minutes long - it was never going to be understood by the masses.

I obviously felt a very strong need to be a part of a family. Looking at trains and thinking 'These kids are writing their names from one end of the city to the other,' I finally felt like I'd found one.

Me and Wiley have got a lot in common. And not just the fact that we're both a bit nuts.

One of the best-kept secrets in Phuket is Banana beach.

I'm eclectic in my tastes because of my trauma. It's madness. It's almost ADHD.

I've always felt mixed race. Or as my music teacher said during a lesson: 'You are a mulatto.' I always felt there were white people, black, and then people like me in the middle.

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.

I've always seen music as colours, with basses maybe translating to dark blues, and trebles as yellows and ochres and a general sense of lights coming through.

The separation from my mother at an early age was traumatic.

I think drum'n'bass music did for the electronic world what graffiti did for the world of art because it was raw and everybody wanted to take from the raw.

I think most albums should be 13 tracks, to be fair. It's a matter of interest. It's quality over quantity.

From the age of three, my life has been documented by social workers. There's a file somewhere in Walsall Social Services saying: 'He was a bit difficult today; he was trying to find out about his parents.' Or: 'He locked himself in his room and is collecting beer mats.'

Art and music is so important for young people - the arts need to be supported and I think there are so many Clifford Prices out there like me.

My whole thing with EDM is, if you have integrity and yet you regress in how you've been as an artist, there's something not quite right there. If you're just here to get paid, I find that very culturally indifferent.

Too many people are making images of war. If I want to see war, I'll watch the news.

Thailand is a really beautiful place, culturally and spiritually. You appreciate it the longer you stay.

I've grown up putting my suitcase down, making new friends, and then having to pick it up again, like 'Let's move him to another foster home in six months' time.'

I collect paint like I collect sound. And then I use layers, layers, layers.

You can be very connected, computers are great, they can get you a ticket to Venezuela in five minutes; brilliant. But if you know your music and your history, you can make that work as a tool. If you don't, you're working as a slave to it.

When you go into the studio, you have to know what you're going in there for. I went into the studio because I had a voice and I wanted to change things, and I don't necessarily mean my bank account. The money is almost a B factor, a side product.

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.

Childhood was abusive and horrible, I endured some stuff I don't even want to talk about. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

I had so much anger. So much anger. Particularly towards my mother. I was a really, really angry person, and it was ruining me.

From where I've come from, I look back at everything, all these people that influenced my life as a kid growing up in a really bad environment, it just makes it all worthwhile in terms of the recognition.

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!

I think albums should be dynamic, man.

Your life can change in seconds.

I DJ'd my first pirate station from a house I broke into in Haringey.

Simon Cowell is the George Bush of the music industry.

Yoga changed my life and I'm big into it.

I see electronic music as loads of monkeys pushing buttons and me being one of them. But I think my album 'Timeless' stands the test of time.

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.'

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.

The weird thing is that 'Maestro' has somehow improved my DJing. When you've been in this music as long as I've been, you can sometimes become jaded. And when I got back from 'Maestro,' I realised the music is being kept in time for me - all I have to do is to wrap as much dynamic around it as I can. DJs don't realise how lucky we are.

My entire childhood was a sacrifice: I was in and out of institutes until I was 17. Art has given me a chance to catch up on the years that I lost.

I will certainly be making music as long as I live.

Impermanence is the greatest gift anyone can have.

It's very important to understand how the trauma of a life drives the music to really mean something.

The layers you get in graffiti, the ornateness, you can hear it in my music. I paint with my music. It's a form of synaesthesia.

Reinvention is the biggest gift I've been given. I've gone from graffiti artist to jewellery maker, urban musician to conductor.

I'd like to make my own line of emojis to be honest.

All my experience in film has been quite fleeting and tokenesque.

I've lost friends and people that I've admired. The loss of any life is a travesty.

I'm understanding theatre a bit more. I've learned that you go over and over stuff. There's a big element of back-story: where have the characters been before, where have they come from?

Anyone who asks if graffiti is really art should be cast out into a field, because they're Neanderthals.

Timeless' is like the little sister, but 'Journeyman' is the big brother - it's what I'll take to the grave.

Bikram Yoga makes me feel 19 again.

I've found a bit of peace in myself.

My perfect day is to get up at 5:30 A.M., jump on my scooter and go to the beach.

Music and art well and truly saved my life really - the light switched on when I discovered art.

Just feeling misunderstood sometimes, I guess, has been my biggest downfall.

I've always been a big champion of saying what we do today creates tomorrow. When you're young, you don't realise all of this stuff, and from an early age I was very conscious of what was going on in my environment.

I use the same big studios that everybody else uses, but my attitude once inside is that of a total barbarian.