74 Quotes by Jay Kay

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.

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

I may be the prat in the hat, that’s cool, but I drive an Aston Martin DB5.

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.

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.

I don’t watch myself on TV, I don’t read the news clippings about me, so when people come up and say, ‘What about that story last week?’ I go, ‘I didn’t even know there was.’

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.

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.

How is the economy supposed to recover when people can’t afford to fill the tank?