Top 30 Keith Flint Quotes

I’m proud to say I’ve never listened to that ‘Gangnam Style.’

What I like about Japanese venues is that the front barrier is right up against the stage, so when you’re bending over, they’re right there in front of you. In some European festivals, they’re so paranoid, you need a taxi to go and touch the crowd!

It’s a bit of a bold statement, but the Prodigy should be seen as an important cultural band.

We went and made our own scene and did our own thing.

I like jokes and one-liners. I enjoy entertaining and making people laugh, being the funny man. But when I’m launched into unfamiliar environments I shut down, and as I relax then my character emerges.

I’m not a singer.

Everything’s so commercialised it shuts down the underground.

I am quite schizophrenic as a person. I can be sweet as anything and lovely, and then I can just go into a scene that people are quite shocked with.

I was never the brains behind the band – that was always Liam. But together we were a complete package.

Trouble is, I’m definitely on the spectrum somewhere – there’s a dysfunctional side.

When we were on XL, they wanted to be dangerous and they wanted to be exciting because we were dangerous and exciting!

If you’re onstage thinking about what you’re going to eat when you get offstage, it’s time to finish.

I’m not the kind of guy who can be sitting around listening to Joni Mitchell, chilling. I’d rather bash my head against a wall.

It can only sound one way with the Prodigy – vicious, banging and, yeah, incites a riot.

I’m not scary. It’s scary for people to see someone being nonconformist.

I know I’m in the best band in the world.

I don’t hear anyone out there that sounds like us. They can try but it’s in the sonics, the whole carcass of the song. The way it attacks you is so well engineered. No one else can do that. They don’t have the ability to make that noise.

To be a part of TT history is a massive achievement. It is one of, if not the greatest races on two wheels, if not on four.

I’m sorry, I’m not a performing monkey.

Look, at the end of the day, we do what we do because it suits us.

We’re all taught to blend in and behave.

That’s just the way the world’s going – everything has to be so instantly commercial that it kills anything that’s a little bit underground instantly.

I’m volatile, up-tempo, quick to react and passionate. People often think all that high-energy stuff is just for the stage, but that’s me. I like to express myself. When I was younger I would listen to the Jam in my bedroom and jump around in excitement to the music.

We don’t feel like we changed from rave, because we were never rave, to punk, because we’re not punk.

There is something about being on stage that’s a release for me. It gets my mental energy out.

We played an old U-Boat factory in East Germany once and that was massive – 35,000 people.

I think anyone who’s willing to be brutally honest with who they are and express themselves is always going to get the oddball label, the pyscho label, the twisted label. That’s what happens.

Some of these DJs have screens, 3D blocks, flames, gas and even a trapeze. It’s like looking at a really stupid customised car.

I’ve always had mental problems, so to speak.

I’ve always been an attention seeker. I’ve always demanded attention and I’ll do anything to get it.