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.

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 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.

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.

Allow yourself to be out of your depth at all times.

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