I made hardcore music and that came kind of easy - it was what I knew. But it was a challenge for me to make a big pop tune.
I sometimes think I should write a book. I've seen some things, you know, but it's all there in the songs.
Rappers and MCs have always had an alias. Building your character, it helps you to get things out.
I think a black man, purple man, Martian man can run the country... as long as he does right by the people.
I think it don't matter what colour you are, it matters what colour your heart is and your intentions.
Every summer in my old area, Bow, these kids from across the road used to bring out quad bikes in the park. They let me have a go, and I don't know what was wrong with me, but I drove straight into a gate and fractured my big toe. I had this mad limp for ages.
I pride myself on the energy I put on stage.
For a bit I was going mad trying to do martial arts twice a week and go to the gym and do weights, but that can make you ill if you balance it with flying around and living like I do, so I narrowed it down.
I just go to the gym once every few weeks and go training once or twice a week. But it's all pretty random.
I swear too much.
I come from the underground, from the ground.
I come from nothing, man.
I always put people with my kind of background first.
Where I'm from, there ain't a lot of other options, you know what I'm saying? Entertainment or football or crime. I don't want to spread the message that all you can do is music or sport. You can be anything. Anything. That's the message I like to spread.
In the end, music was the only option open to me. It was a blessing I pursued it. I put all my energies into it. I didn't care about no other subjects.
Even I find myself boring sometimes.
I'm definitely not proud of some of the stuff I did as a youth, but that's where my mind-frame was at one point in my life, and I can't pretend those things didn't happen. I'm not glorifying them, I'm trying to make them into art.
Hip hop is the way it is because of America.
School would have been pretty dead really for me without music. I liked IT, and English was all right, but that was it.
I don't really class myself as a musician, I can make music but I'm not the greatest technically. There were other people who were technically better than me in school but I knew how I wanted to sound and all I needed was to work out how to do it.
