I live or die for hip-hop and it's a beautiful form but you're a writer first and foremost.

In London, the most, the biggest thing we have is culture, you know what I mean? That's what we've done for the past 50, 60 100 years, this is what we've done. My worry is that that will change but actually, that will never change because musicians will just go somewhere else.

When you're a story teller, you work out everything. You work out who these people are, what's going to be happening. The environment in which they live.

When I began rapping, I only had one form at my disposal. All I had, all I needed was a rhyme verse; sixteen bar, thirty-two bar, whatever it was. If I had an idea it came out as a rhyme. When I challenged myself to think beyond that, my first thing other than a rhyme that I wrote was a play.

The more you close the doors, the less free your ideas can come, and they come from up here and come through you.

It's actually a very liberating thing to have a creative community, which is something that we all kind of desperately search for and find in the ways that we can.

Some things, it's very useful to begin without knowing fully where you're going.