Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.

Critics I don't understand. They get too intellectual. They're not very well-versed in street talk; it takes them longer to say it. So they have to do it in dictionaries and they take longer to say it.

There seem to be a lot of black artists making very good videos that I'm surprised aren't being used on MTV.

Sits like a man, but smiles like a reptile.

The people who don't know so much about me regard me more sexually.

You can begin really looking for a relationship . . . when you can (appreciate) the whole concept of giving to someone, not just taking.