Trying to impress my mother with words was one of my favourite pursuits.

I have masturbated myself out of serious problems in my life.

I knew what I wanted to do when I was 13 and I had to go through four years of high school to get out. That's a blessing, because I never had to lay on my bed staring up at the ceiling going, 'What am I going to do with my life?'

There's a certain lack of gimmickry to what I do that makes people in England go: 'Where's the thing?

I came from the last couple of years in a generation where we didn't have a computer around so we didn't waste as much time on the internet as we do now so I had large chuncks of time which to devote to doing something.

So scared of getting older I'm only good at being young So I play the numbers game to find a way to say that life has just begun.

I want to be the first guy from my generation who doesn't just represent one record but the promise of a lot of them.