12 Quotes by Norman Cook

Most people don't get a fair crack of the whip.

I make music for the hips, not the head.

I try to make people smile and dance, not think about things or educate them.

I'm very superstitious... I never shout at magpies, walk under ladders or put my shoes on the table.

I think English people were a lot better at breakdancing than they were at making records.

On top of the horror of separating from your wife, you have to go through it in public.

They couldn't do a drugs story on me because I'd already done one on myself.

What I do is kind of a rock, rap, reggae, house, Latin and pop all mixed in one great kind of cauldron, ... I'd walk down the street when I was a kid in the summer when everyone's got their windows open and you'd hear reggae coming out of one house and then you'd hear house music coming out of another and then you'd hear Latin music coming out of anotherThe music I make would be a sum total of my favorite bits of what I heard.

I didn't really get into second gear until I was 30. My first wife was a nurse and she was very anti. I never really started caning it until 1990, when I was 29. I had to make up for being a late starter. It wasn't self-destruction - I was having fun. There was never any reason to stop doing it, because it was fun. It makes it much harder to give up. It wasn't even starting to hurt.