Quotes from Keith Flint

Your mates are the people who have been around 10 years or more.

I was never the brains behind the band - that was always Liam. But together we were a complete package.

I'm volatile, up-tempo, quick to react and passionate. People often think all that high-energy stuff is just for the stage, but that's me. I like to express myself. When I was younger I would listen to the Jam in my bedroom and jump around in excitement to the music.

I am quite schizophrenic as a person. I can be sweet as anything and lovely, and then I can just go into a scene that people are quite shocked with.

The point is to be true to yourself - otherwise you may as well give up.

Look, at the end of the day, we do what we do because it suits us.

We like to take picnics and sandwiches, driving through the green lanes. My wife loves the house, the dogs, and the animals we have around us, the deer and the fox that comes and pokes his head through the hedge.

Our buzz is from the crowd.

When you have had the high of being on stage, especially in a band like ourselves, I can't help but search for that buzz.

I'm not here to change the world, but I do think while you're here you should have a bit of passion about life.

The TT is a very precious thing to the riders. These guys that do the roads are very unique people. On the first hand you've got the bravery, the knowledge of the circuit, the guys live this - this is what they are about. I am very aware of that.

I've always been an attention seeker. I've always demanded attention and I'll do anything to get it.

We're all taught to blend in and behave.

To be a part of TT history is a massive achievement. It is one of, if not the greatest races on two wheels, if not on four.

I think what's more important to The Prodigy is that, whatever number your album goes in at, or the single, or however many plays it gets, or doesn't get, or awards you get, or don't get; our reward, as a band, is to write the best album we can and then go to Download festival and rip it to pieces.

I was quite disruptive and out there. Then I found myself in a load of remedial classes being told how to use a ruler. But when they tested my IQ, they found out I was quite intelligent.

Don't you think it's kind-of cool to have a band that offends MTV, that puts out a video that real fans have to dig around for, or stay up late to see?

We've never adopted Americanisms. We are a very British band from a very British cultural scene. We fly that flag and that is something I enjoy.

People are getting force-fed commercial, generic records that are just safe, safe, safe.

We played an old U-Boat factory in East Germany once and that was massive - 35,000 people.

We don't feel like we changed from rave, because we were never rave, to punk, because we're not punk.

If you like energy, if you like attitude, if you like tough beats with black rhythms with a bit of soul and a bit of realness, come and check out the Prodigy.

You know, it's very easy to have a few beers with people in the music industry and suddenly be friends for life - 'Let's work together!' All of a sudden, you're trying to form a super group with a few people you've met in a club. I'm not into that, myself. Those aren't your mates.

There is something about being on stage that's a release for me. It gets my mental energy out.