Keith Quotes
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I know Mick Jagger wouldn’t tour without Keith Richards and call it the Rolling Stones.
Richie Sambora
Bon Jovi
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I'm not into that Keith Richard trip of having all those guitars in different tunings. I never liked the Rolling Stones much anyway.
Ritchie Blackmore
Blackmore's Night
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Firestarter' was a risk, we had never done a fully vocal track before and Keith had never sung before. It was hardly the safe option. We could have turned out the same old tunes over and over again, but that's not what The Prodigy are about. We are about taking risks.
Maxim
The Prodigy
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The whole idea with the 'Breathe' video was for me and Keith to be confrontational, getting at each other without actually making contact. That concept is very similar to how the track feels on stage - the tension and energy between us is electric. When we play 'Breathe' in the set it just sparks something off. It's a combination of the audience, the sound, the track, it's incredible. We tried to capture that in the video but it's very hard. As with all our videos, I imagined I was performing the song live, you feel it much more that way, but even the it is so hard to recreate that live atmosphere. Performing 'Breathe' live is ten times more powerful and overwhelming.
Maxim
The Prodigy
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I'm the Best Keith Moon-type drummer in the world.
John Henry Bonham
Band of Joy
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'Firestarter' was like that. Keith heard the track as an instrumental and thought it was wicked and said he couldn't wait to dance to it on stage. He sat down there for a while and then said 'I would love to put some vocals on this'. We put the actual words down in a London studio, and I can't explain the feeling me and Keith got that night, driving home listening to the tape, playing it over and over again. I knew then it was something original, that I had achieved something.
Liam Howlett
The Prodigy
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Keith Ellison is an organizer's organizer.He's one of the only Muslims in Congress, so you have a big statement there.
Van Jones
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We'd been away for a year and we needed to come back with a big impact, but just another dance track would not have broken any new ground. As far as I'm concerned 'Firestarter' set a whole new level for English music, that's my honest opinion, crossing the barriers between punk and dance. Keith re-invented himself and it was a great introduction to him. It was onvincing but not just because it was #1. The track sounds like it means business, the way Keith delivers the vocals, the music has such attitude. It was a landmark.
Liam Howlett
The Prodigy
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The bloke is a complete lunatic. When I met him (Keith) five or six years ago, he was driving round in this battered up old Ford Escort and there was one night we went out doing three-point turns in the snow, off our faces on E and mushrooms. I’m not saying this was acceptable behaviour in fact it was fucking stupid but it’ll give you an idea of where our heads were at at the time.
Liam Howlett
The Prodigy
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It was way out in the woods in a beautiful, huge log studio. Keith Richards came in and did the vocals with Levon. Again, a big party, but we did get a good cut out of it.
Scotty Moore
