Jay Kay 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.

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  Bmw, Car, Waiting

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Young Generation, World

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

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  Guy, Needs, Kind

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• 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.

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  Two, Feet, Kicking

  "Jay Kay: 'Getting an award on Top Gear is better than getting a Grammy'". Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. October 31, 2010.

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

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  Waiting, Impatient, Planets

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• 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.

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  Artist, Careers, Lucky

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• I am quite fussy about clothes.

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  Clothes, Fussy

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

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  Hats, Aston Martin, May

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

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  Way, Life Is, Private Life

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• 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.

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  Track, People, Radio

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• The ability to last more than six minutes - isn't that what all men want?

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  Men, Want, Lasts

  "Jay Kay: 'Getting an award on Top Gear is better than getting a Grammy'". Mirror.co.uk Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. January 27, 2012.

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• 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!

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  Moon, Years, Weather

  "Jay Kay: 'Getting an award on Top Gear is better than getting a Grammy'". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. October 31, 2010.

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• 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.

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  People, Hours, Miles

  "Jay Kay: 'Getting an award on Top Gear is better than getting a Grammy'". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. October 31, 2010.

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• Getting an award on Top Gear is better than getting a Grammy.

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  Awards, Gears, Top Gear

  "Jay Kay: 'Getting an award on Top Gear is better than getting a Grammy'". Mirror.co.uk Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. January 27, 2012.

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• 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.

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  Stars, Thinking, Rocks

  "Jay Kay: 'Getting an award on Top Gear is better than getting a Grammy'". Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. October 31, 2010.

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• 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.

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  Girl, Dog, Wind

  "Jay Kay: 'Getting an award on Top Gear is better than getting a Grammy'". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. October 31, 2010.

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• Well, there's lots of different things going on at the moment, I'm in talks with some people from Japan to do something and I'm also talking to Hugo Boss to do a very small line, which I want to keep to just 10-12 pieces, but what I want to do is sit with the designers for a couple of days bashing some stuff out.

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  Couple, Japan, Talking

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• From 16 to 21 when I was self sufficient and working in factories. I packed batteries, boxes, and make-up with heroin addicts. I have to thank my mum for kicking me out at 16 and making me stand on my own two feet.

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  Self, Two, Feet

  "Jay Kay: 'Getting an award on Top Gear is better than getting a Grammy'". Mirror.co.uk Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. January 27, 2012.

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

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  Times Of Crisis, Crisis, Mid Life Crisis

  "Jay Kay: ‘Getting an award on Top Gear is better than getting a Grammy’". Interview with Mirror, www.mirror.co.uk. October 31, 2010.

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• 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.

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  Crazy, Cutting, Doe

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• 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.'

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  People, Watches, News

  "Jay Kay: 'Getting an award on Top Gear is better than getting a Grammy'". Mirror.co.uk Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. January 27, 2012.

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• 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.

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  Art, Government, Car

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

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  People, Tanks, Economy

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• I wanted to use a totally different part of my brain. It's quite scary at times. I went for learning to fly because it was most difficult of all. The insurance man just sat there and licked his lips when I told him.

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  Men, Scary, Brain

  "Jay Kay: 'Getting an award on Top Gear is better than getting a Grammy'". Mirror.co.uk Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. January 27, 2012.

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• I am a bit old-school.

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  Old School, School, Bits

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