Dye
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NEW INTERVIEW
Hello Jamirotalkers,
Back to what I love the most... interviews!
POP QUIZ: JAMIROQUAI
Aidin Vaziri
Sunday, September 25, 2005
Jay Kay tells us about the nasty little habit that nearly derailed his career, life on a big English country estate and love found again behind the wheel. Just don't ask the 35-year-old Jamiroquai front man about that Costa Rican hangover. Or where he buys those ridiculous hats. The British funk outfit releases its latest album, "Dynamite," this week and returns to San Francisco in November for a pair of shows at the Fillmore.
Q: The song "Hot Tequila Brown" is about a three-day cocaine binge that almost killed you.
A: Yeah, it talks about being awake after three days and wondering what the hell I'm doing. I'm watching the sun come up and not realizing the Costa Rican sun comes up pretty quick and gets pretty hot. So the bottle of brown tequila I had on the bed with my eyes lolling about came to my lips and it was like, it was like ... drinking coffee from Starbucks.
Q: That's like drinking diarrhea.
A: This s -- burned my lips off. After that, I thought, I don't want to play this game anymore.
Q: Did you go cold turkey?
A: Yeah, I went cold turkey in a sense. There was no drinking, no dope, no sex, no going out, no nothing. I just wasn't sitting around with eight other people sharing my experience and trying to get through it. I didn't feel like I needed to do that. I just called a friend and asked if he would help me.
Q: Did you have to cut off a lot of your old friends?
A: I didn't cut off too many. There were situations I avoided and I'll still avoid now. If I know there's going to be loads of coke poured out onto the table, I'm not going to stick around.
Q: Are you a religious man?
A: No, I'm not. I believe all of us are very, very inconsequential. I think we're just a tiny part of the bigger picture. I think one day we will face the reckoning that we haven't really bargained on at all and a little rock will knock us about in 2050.
Q: Is the cocaine to blame for the 20-minute didgeridoo solos on your previous albums?
A: No, that's the dope.
Q: Have you given up dope as well?
A: No, you can still smell the sweet scent of sensei around me.
Q: Your last release was a breakup album. Have you gone on any dates lately?
A: No, I haven't. I haven't been thinking about it, to be honest. But if you're asking me if I've been having regular, enjoyable sex, the answer's yes.
Q: That's good enough. Don't you ever get lonely on that big estate?
A: I wouldn't say I'm particularly lonely because we've got an office here and everybody's buzzing around constantly. In fact, to be honest, I probably don't spend enough time properly on my own.
Q: Besides, you have your cars.
A: Yes, but the halcyon days of high-speed intercontinental driving have all gone. I used to love taking the Ferrari out on those coastal roads for the day. Now I have this reputation for driving like a maniac around the streets of London and it's bulls -- . I put my foot down where applicable -- and where applicable is anywhere I can't see anything for a long way and it's time to use those horses.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/09/25/PKGM9DCT9F1.DTL&type=music
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...hehehehe ... btw.. i would like to know if he uses.. some "bad" forbidden words .. he usually uses... 
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