When you know a place, your feet have walked it so many times there's a comfort to it.

Never expect what you write to be any good, 'cause it's the fear of writing badly that stops you from finding the right words.

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.

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

A story comes into your head fully formed, you know exactly the place, the setting, the people. All you've got to do is get it our and written as soon as you possibly can.

If you ever feel comfortable in what you're producing, you've lost. You're not alive, that's it, it's stagnant water.

When you know a place, your feet have walked it so many times there's a comfort to it.