Improvisation is risky. I like that. Another practical reason for that is that you have to go out and play every day on a tour. I couldn't do it if I…

- Jamie Lidell

I guess I've always had such an identity crisis when it comes to other people's understanding of me. I don't feel it in myself but from an outsider's…

- Jamie Lidell

Improvisation has been with me since I was a kid, and, taking a selfish pleasure from that, I just thought, "What the hell. It might as well be somet…

- Jamie Lidell

There's a difference between writing, the written word, and music. When you have the blank page it doesn't make a sound, which is like what happens t…

- Jamie Lidell

It's weird how things are really stop-start in my creative process. I can't just turn it on - it just happens kind of randomly and I've just got to r…

- Jamie Lidell

You have to sit with the songs until they start to live. Or do things straight-up spontaneously. I set up a beat just like I do in the live show, add…

- Jamie Lidell

It always happens around beach resorts, a certain kind of money gravitates to the scene. The gold goes to the water. People love to wear it, show it …

- Jamie Lidell

It's really hard to make something that doesn't sound like everything else.

- Jamie Lidell

I really wanted to maintain that bedroom philosophy to creating stuff. I don't believe the hype; I think a great record is because I put a lot of lov…

- Jamie Lidell