There's enough brackets put on us already, we don't need to bracket our creativity anymore than we do.

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

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.

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 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.

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.