Quotes

I'm not a big fan of football records. I thought Three Lions was quite a good anthem and World In Motion was a good record, apart from the John Barnes rap.

(2011, on quitting drinking) I quit drinking two years ago, and that makes the whole DJ thing so much more manageable, and my life. Whereas before, I was always just kind of dragging myself up from some hotel room floor, whereas now I fly around the globe and give good parties, and I'm not focused on scraping up bits of myself off the floor.

[on re-locating to Brazil] I am more popular there that I am in England. It's an ongoing mutual love affair. I was gobsmacked. I went right to the other side if the world where I didn't speak the language, and I played my tunes and they went, 'We like this. We get this. We like you'.

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

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

I make music for the hips, not the head.

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

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

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.