Life is hard enough. Life is always going to be hard, so you need to push for what you want.
I don't think I was ever really a normal kid. I always wanted to do it big, and so I was always on the lookout for strong people I could learn from.
Yeah, I like Three Six Mafia and stuff like that.
People classify things and that's fair enough. But if somebody wants to make something different, that doesn't make them any less of an artist.
When you're actually boxing, unless it's a proper grudge match, it's less about beating the person up and more about being better within yourself. Being patient, timing things, like chess, so really, it's as much down to you as what the other person does - and that's life.
If you believe, you can achieve, innit.
There's a lot going on music-wise in L.A. It's a wicked place to wake up, there's sunshine, you go to the studio, see all these really talented producers.
I like to work with the best artists, full stop, around the world, and just make things happen man.
When I was young I used to watch MTV, Nirvana, or Guns N' Roses.
I liked going to the Caribbean, just having nice holidays, do you know what I mean?
I go everywhere quiet - like a ninja. Always have done. Think big, move quiet.
I grew up on the pirate radio scene which started out as drum 'n' bass music. U.K. garage picked up and got bigger on the back end of that.
Politicians... say what they say - you might get every now and again a genuine one, innit? But I think people, like, as a whole make the difference.
I grew up and learnt to hold my own. My mum was doing two people's jobs. It makes you grow up early. There's less people to talk to, less close people, innit? You're going to end up being lonely because you think a bit more.
America is the land of the hustler: it's bigger, bolder, flasher, more in your face, whereas England's more about attention to detail - trying to be refined and classy, and I think a lot of people in the urban scene in this country have had trouble accepting that.
I'll never run out of things to rap about. Sometimes you sit there and think, 'I can't do it, I can't do it.' Then something happens and you start writing.
When you hear 'I Luv U,' that's me doing Three 6 Mafia. That actual track is a mix of 'What's Your Fantasy?' by Ludacris and 'Is That Yo Chick?' by Jay Z. That's my version of that track.
I'm going to be big like Michael Jackson.
People talk about the pop part - they don't talk about me being an independent artist. I made it look easy, that's the problem!
Barack Obama embraced hip-hop, man. That's the way he got through to kids.
