Jay Kay famous 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.
-- Jay Kay

#Bmw #Car #Waiting

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.
-- Jay Kay

#Thinking #Stuff #Generations

I am quite fussy about clothes.
-- Jay Kay

#Clothes

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.
-- Jay Kay

#Two #Feet #Kicking

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

#Aston Martin #May #Hats

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.
-- Jay Kay

#Stars #Thinking #Rocks

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.
-- Jay Kay

#Home #Buzz #Rooms

My place in Scotland is in the middle of nowhere, so you've just got a keyboard, guitar, a little drum machine and you know if you can work stuff out like that, if you can hammer out songs that sound good just with those three things and a voice, you're on your way.
-- Jay Kay

#Song #Guitar #Scotland

I am a bit old-school.
-- Jay Kay

#School #Old School

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

#Notes

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

#Feet #Mind

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

#Waiting #Impatient #Planets

I can find every jacket under the sun that I like. But I cannot find trousers cut the way I want them. They're all really tight at the bottom. Nobody does a boot cut on a trouser leg. It drives me crazy.
-- Jay Kay

#Crazy #Cutting #Doe

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

#Guy #Needs #Kind

I know all we're doing is travelling without moving. Speed freak faster than a speedin' bullet, slow down. If I don't, I might just lose it, locked up. You've got me honey, locked up under heavy brakin', yeah. You know I've got to hang on, drive too fast, I might be last.
-- Jay Kay

#Travel #Moving #Might

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.
-- Jay Kay

#People #Track #Radio

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.
-- Jay Kay

#Girl #Dog #Wind

I love being able to go on local flights when the weather is right. I've popped to the Isle of Wight, Cornwall and been mountain flying in Wales. When I got my licence I was over the moon, it was one of the greatest days of my life - it took two years to get!
-- Jay Kay

#Moon #Years #Weather

I'm in this absolutely gorgeous manor house with acres of quite beautiful countryside. I've got trout in the river, an organic vegetable garden, I've got my work 40 yards from my home. I don't mind being criticised, but where are they criticising from? Which hut are they criticising me from, exactly?
-- Jay Kay

#Beautiful #Home #Garden

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

#Country #Proud #British

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.
-- Jay Kay

#Art #Government #Giving

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.
-- Jay Kay

#Artist #Careers #Lucky

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.
-- Jay Kay

#People #Hours #Miles

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.
-- Jay Kay

#Littles #Knees #Stage

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

#Way #Life Is #Private Life

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

#Crisis #Mid Life Crisis

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

#People #Tanks #Economy

This will be the racing competition to end all racing competitions, .. I am extremely pleased to be working with Electronic Arts on this exciting opportunity giving music and gaming fans the chance to live the Need for Speed TM experience.
-- Jay Kay

#Art #Opportunity #Giving