Norman Cook Quotations

I am a club DJ. I am not a pop star.

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 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.

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.

Until House came along I don't think the English made very good dance records, you know, there were very few really good English Rap records, whereas once House came along all of a sudden we started and now I think we probably lead the world, and have overtaken America in dance music.

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

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

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