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.

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.

My point is is that if you are ever comfortable you're not growing and if, unless you are completely out of your depth, your creativity of whatever you are producing, you will never know how strong your stroke it.

You don't know how to get yourself out of that deep water until you're in the deep water.

Actually in the moment in which the idea has life, when it's listened to read, engaged with, acted on stage, it gains another dimension, it becomes three dimensional.