Keith Flint
If you like energy, if you like attitude, if you like tough beats with black rhythms with a bit of soul and a bit of realness, come and check out the Prodigy.Collection: Attitude
I'm sorry, I'm not a performing monkey.
Trouble is, I'm definitely on the spectrum somewhere - there's a dysfunctional side.
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'm not here to change the world, but I do think while you're here you should have a bit of passion about life.
Our buzz is from the crowd.
The point is to be true to yourself - otherwise you may as well give up.
I know that I'm with the best people I can be, and my arsenal of sounds and songs and tracks is as good as it could possibly be. Don't be in a band unless you feel that.
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.
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.
When you have had the high of being on stage, especially in a band like ourselves, I can't help but search for that buzz.
I'm incredibly self-destructive.
I've always had mental problems, so to speak.
There is something about being on stage that's a release for me. It gets my mental energy out.
It's a bit of a bold statement, but the Prodigy should be seen as an important cultural band.
Everything's so commercialised it shuts down the underground.
We've stood by who we are and we didn't listen to anyone else.
We've never adopted Americanisms. We are a very British band from a very British cultural scene. We fly that flag and that is something I enjoy.
I was never the brains behind the band - that was always Liam. But together we were a complete package.
I was quite disruptive and out there. Then I found myself in a load of remedial classes being told how to use a ruler. But when they tested my IQ, they found out I was quite intelligent.
We like to take picnics and sandwiches, driving through the green lanes. My wife loves the house, the dogs, and the animals we have around us, the deer and the fox that comes and pokes his head through the hedge.
If you're onstage thinking about what you're going to eat when you get offstage, it's time to finish.
Going onstage is like going into battle. You're ultimately there to win. It's driven and fuelled by passion and a desire to do it.
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.
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.
We played an old U-Boat factory in East Germany once and that was massive - 35,000 people.
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!
I know I'm in the best band in the world.
When we walk onto that stage I'm not feeling like I'm ruled by any other band.
Look, at the end of the day, we do what we do because it suits us.
Don't you think it's kind-of cool to have a band that offends MTV, that puts out a video that real fans have to dig around for, or stay up late to see?
We went and made our own scene and did our own thing.
I just do my thing onstage - it's just what happens. No one, even if they're into the band, can know it's as natural and real as anything can be. I don't think about it.
I'm not sure if I'd call myself an extrovert. I think I'm a bit contradictory. I like being endearing and venomous at the same time. I guess it's one part of myself fighting against the other part, proving that I'm not that nice all the time.
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 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.
When we were on XL, they wanted to be dangerous and they wanted to be exciting because we were dangerous and exciting!
You know, it's very easy to have a few beers with people in the music industry and suddenly be friends for life - 'Let's work together!' All of a sudden, you're trying to form a super group with a few people you've met in a club. I'm not into that, myself. Those aren't your mates.
Your mates are the people who have been around 10 years or more.
It's always hard to find groups who can tour with The Prodigy.
With Liam, what you see is what you get. I love him for it. That's what it's about - you've got to have the Liam Gallaghers out there, you know what I mean?
I've always been an attention seeker. I've always demanded attention and I'll do anything to get it.
I'm not scary. It's scary for people to see someone being nonconformist.
We're all taught to blend in and behave.
I'm in a band. I'll do what I want.
I'm not a singer.
We don't feel like we changed from rave, because we were never rave, to punk, because we're not punk.
People are getting force-fed commercial, generic records that are just safe, safe, safe.
America is really happy to be sold something.
Some of these DJs have screens, 3D blocks, flames, gas and even a trapeze. It's like looking at a really stupid customised car.