Quotes by Norman Cook

All the biggest DJs in the world are my age - Carl Cox, Pete Tong, Danny Tenaglia, Paul Oakenfold, we're all 40-plus. Every time we chat, we're like, It's starting to really hurt!

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.

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

I'm very inspired.

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

I've given up smoking and started going to the gym. I think they raised an eyebrow when I first went in, but it's a very quiet gym. I couldn't do it in front of the general public, it would just be too embarrassing, huffing and sweating away with all these muscly blokes watching you.

I've got this job where I show off, play my favourite records and get free drinks and I get to shag Zoe Ball. Maybe when I die there will be some horrible punishment, like spending the rest of eternity with Liz Hurley.

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.

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

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.

We're just a married couple having fun. There's no big deal what a married couple get up to in the privacy of their own home. But yes, there is a pole for Zoe to lapdance.

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