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.

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

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

When you know a place, your feet have walked it so many times there's a comfort to it.

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

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

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.