Norman Cook Music Quotations

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.

The whole British Hip Hop scene basically happened through word of mouth and through people like you sort of spreading the word in different cities.

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

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

I make music for the hips, not the head.