I thought I would be dead by 50, I am blessed to be here...

shortly after he was born and his mother Margaret put him into care when he was three, keeping the other kids at home.

While he was eventually reunited with his mother, he found sanctuary as a graffiti artist in the emerging street art scene.

Now he’s keen that his art and music leave something positive for his youngest daughter Coco.

He also has a son, Jamie Price, who was jailed for life in 2010 for killing a rival gang member outside a Wolverhampton nightclub.

“I think the art and the legacy might make money so my daughter won’t have to work as hard,” he muses.

“I think it’s important for human beings to leave a positive legacy of something behind anyway.

“Why are there statues in London? There are people who had great wealth in this country who left a lot of money for people that were below the water line. There should be a lot more of that now.

“I think people only see the immediate, I am no spring chicken and neither am I a politician, but I am trying to find myself spiritually.”

That word – spiritual – comes up a lot. He says he’s spiritual rather than political, but he backed Jeremy Corbyn in the last election.

“When yoga people generally do politics they are not the people that are going to push the button tomorrow and kill us all.”

He adds: “I don’t think Corbyn is the best choice but better the devil you know than the one you don’t.”

Goldie’s latest record, The Journey Man, came out in June and got its name because “the Journey Man is incomplete, he wonders around and never really completes anything, there should be a humbleness in that, you can’t think you’ve arrived”.

He adds: “There is truthfulness in the music sometimes, it doesn’t sound like anything else.

“It doesn’t mean it’s the best but sometimes people want to be in denial. It’s easier, it’s safer not to listen.

“It’s safer to put your helmet on and just go through it all.

“I think life should be important, whatever you do. If everyone made music like me everyone would be a bit too depressed or elated, one of the two, I’m not sure which one.

“I just think you will be able to play this album in 20 years and it will sound great.”

He is minutely involved in every aspect of the making of his music, in constant conversation with the team he works with, and he will listen to it long after it’s finished.

He says: “People get that mixed up a little bit, thinking ‘oh god he’s really full of himself because he listens to his own music’, but no, I listen to a resonance that is channelled by something far greater than I am.

“I’m just channelling it, it’s not me that made it and I can listen to it like it’s not me that made it.”