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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.