Quotes from Goldie

Simon Cowell is the George Bush of the music industry.

The music I make is for the inner city.

Creating art is like being sick - you bring up all your innermost thoughts, and then you have to ask yourself why you're doing it.

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.

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.

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.

To find someone who loves your children like you do is really rare.

Yes, I can be melancholy, but do you think I had Bing Crosby singing 'White Christmas'? I never had nothing. I didn't have all the things I wanted when I wanted them. I didn't have presents.

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

Bikram Yoga makes me feel 19 again.

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

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

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

I'm ahead of fashion: my clothes aren't fashionable at the time, but they become so. I set trends.

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.

Every genre succumbs to gentrification at some point- as equipment becomes cheaper, as crowds become younger, there seems to be a sheepish attitude towards producers - how they can follow a mundane, linear sound, and make money.

I'm fussy. I'm stubborn. I want all the little details and I don't want to look like anyone else - that to me is very important.

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

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.

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.

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.

Songwriting for me is about zooming into the canvas, not songwriting in a typical sense.

The machinery of the music industry is that you put something into it and it could be chewed up.

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.