I read so many books when I was a kid that I didn't even know were shaping me up.
It's not always about convincing your parents of what you want to do, but just saying, 'This is what I'm doing; this is what I love.'
I was good at most subjects at school. Looking back, I was a proper boffin! Now, the thing I'm really good at is poker.
Our parents don't always know what's right. It's a new age.
If I'm not working on music, I'm usually with my friends playing FIFA. We just kick back - I'm proper chilled.
I just feel like there is nothing I cannot do.
It was my dream to come to Oxford and study political science.
I grew up in south London, and I remember watching the scene pop off in East and think, 'Ahhhh, I would love to be in Bow E3 right now spitting wid Wiley and Dizzee.'
I'm on the rise and whatnot, but I'm not the man to say, 'All right, world, here's grime.' It's gonna take me, Skepta, JME, Novelist and Lethal Bizzle, to say, 'I'm sick, he's sick, he's sick, he's sick'. Not one man can do it.
I don't care if it's a white millionaire kid from Oxfordshire who comes to my show, buys my record, supports me and rates me. It's cool.
Engineering was the safe and sensible choice, but music was what I loved and wanted to do.
I'm a completely fearless musician.
Every single thing that I was told that I couldn't do without a label - get in the charts, get on to the Radio 1 playlist - I've done.
I'm not mad into raving, to be honest. If it's not music, I'm chilling. But most of the time, it's music.
Bands like Little Mix do represent youth culture because loads of 16 year old girls listen to them.
My mum's always had big aspirations because I'm an academic. I always got good grades at school. GCSEs were just a breeze for me.
The Americans have their way of talking, their way of dressing, their way of doing things, and we have ours. That's why this whole U.K. underground thing has become sick, because everyone has finally said, 'Yeah, yeah, Drake is sick - but hang on, we are too.'
I was doing without for so long, not knowing the things that are normal for musicians. I was getting bookings regardless, people phoning or emailing me direct, and journalists were writing about me anyway.
Wiley has given me wise words a few times.
Grime is still quite new. You can't expect national radio and national media to get it straight away.
