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

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

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'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

If I don't keep my music varied I go a bit stir crazy, you know? If I don't have the opportunity to jump genres every now and again I feel I'm boxed-…

- Jamie Lidell

I really wanted to maintain that bedroom philosophy to creating stuff.

- Jamie Lidell

I feel myself developing more and more of this soul voice, and...it's a mystery to me. Fundamentally, I just think because I feel it, it's alright.

- Jamie Lidell

The most important thing for me - and the thing I get frustrated about when I don't achieve it - is momentum. Sometimes you hit on it quite naturally…

- Jamie Lidell