Quotes from Goldie

Your life can change in seconds.

I never start a song at the beginning; I always start in the middle, working with the original concept. That might be a loop or a vocal hook. A weird noise or a string sample. Once that's at the heart of the song, I work concertina-fashion, expanding the song forwards to the end and backwards to the beginning.

Just no gentrified drum and bass music anymore, please! It's not good for your health.

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

Some people bought into the whole fame thing more than others, but I never did. I never felt I belonged; I wasn't confident.

Pat Metheny's my hero, man. I've got so much from Metheny's music.

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

Once you leave your ego behind and let the good light in, you shine good light back. That may be a bit Buddhist but so what.

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 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 couldn't carry on straight after doing 'Mother,' it was really hard. Getting my anger out was a catharsis but it was also selfish and indulgent.

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.

I'm deeply, deeply passionate about creating peace and well-being in the classroom, and well-being as a global nation.

I've been practicing modalities of Eastern philosophy since about 1972. What I've learned through my meditation is a sense of equanimity, a sense of all things being equal.

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

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.

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.

Mother' is not just about the physical mother but the fact of needing to be mothered, needing to have something that surrounded me.

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.

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

When I was in the care system, I lived for skating and drawing. I lived on roller skates.

In New York, I was into Kool G Rap and Polo, KRS-One, that whole big 80s boom.

No relationship is easy, and nobody should ever think it is. The minute you start forgetting the needs of the other person is when you get in trouble.

I believe having religion in your life creates the potential for long-lasting relationships.