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.

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.

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

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

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