Rage and grief are savage companions, but despair is the final undoing.

Somebody told me that if you wake up every day and do stuff that's easy, then you're doing the wrong thing. If you wake up every day and do stuff that's really hard and you manage to get through to people, then you're doing the right thing. They might have just fooled me by telling me that, but it worked. I think that's my philosophy.

In England right now you're not good enough until you get validated.

Any piece of art, when you're putting it on a certain platform, if the platform becomes a political place, you can manipulate things.

I feel so terrible for the kids now. In London, even people in their forties can't afford to buy a house or have kids.

Nike is the uniform for kids all over the world, and African design has been killed by Nike. Africans no longer want to wear their own designs.

Music that was made in the 60s and 70s did come from a really soulful place. The seed for the songs written in the 90s were planted in those songs, even though they were samples.