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

Now, [hip-hop/grime artists] Stormzy, Skepta, or the Section Boyz have to be validated by Drake, Rihanna or Beyoncé. They're rolled into this one urban culture bubble; it's not really to do with, "I'm specifically f - ked off about my country and what's going on in my town." We're very much only showing success to artists who impress American artists, and I'm one of them.

With homogenized culture, even if you feel frustrated, you'd have to write a Taylor Swift song to get heard.

I am the bridge between the East and the West. I don't want to abandon one for the other.

I find the new Justin Bieber video more violent and more of an assault to my eyes and senses than what I've made.

I already feel that I am making a political statement by sticking around in music, when I am doing it so differently to everyone else.

If you're talking about coexisting and tolerance then you have to live by example, and you can't have shiny people all the time everywhere, which is what breeds that sort of thinking - this is better than this, that is better than that.