When I was trying to make songs to go to America, to go to Japan, they'd never work.
Getting in touch with your life purpose is important.
All my early lyrics were about confidence.
Bullying is bullying, man. Even the biggest of the bullies got bullied. And what was happening in school comes from the media, innit? It comes from TV and society.
I don't watch the news because I understand that I'm like a science lab. Whatever I take in is how I feel.
I think some things that are better for me are not good for other people, innit. They need to run theirself. Everybody should run theirself.
I did drama at school, as a kid, but I ain't been to, like, acting school or anything. I was in a couple of school plays.
When I do music videos, I like to do a take, then see how it looks, so I can correct it.
There are different things to wear in different places, and if you want to fit in and show respect, you can dress to do that, or you can dress to show that you are foreign and not from there. That can work, too.
I've been trying to do this music stuff and work it out for so long... I was like, 'Let's do it for ourselves.' All these songs, we've travelled the world - no record label, nothing. We just did this for us, but the love is very appreciated.
I was working so hard at music and trying to do this whole 'industry' thing and realised that it wasn't for me.
I'm paranoid of people hating on me.
I hear all the big department stores like Macy's and Bloomingdale's in the U.S. playing hard hip-hop records to the shoppers, like Rick Ross at his gnarliest. That's amazing. It makes me think grime can do a similar thing.
It took a long time for hip-hop to become commercial. Now there's all these big black icons that came from nowhere to somewhere. Look at Jay-Z! People stopped being threatened by the music and just started to appreciate that it's good.
We've been ahead for so long in the U.K., we're so multicultural, and that's the beauty. That's why grime was formed, from this mix, this understanding of different people.
You won't feel inferior in my sportswear!
That's all that life is really about - setting up the party, talking to people who are like-minded, making something happen and keeping it moving, you know.
At every stage of my life, I've always wanted to do good for Earth.
Some artists are like ready-salted crisps and just do what they are supposed to do. But I'm every flavour in one. I'm one of those variety packs.
I'm happy that grime remains underground. A lot of people talk like it's some underrated or ignored genre, but to me, that's the beauty of it.
