I feel like I'm living in the dead weeds of hip-hop. I live in the graveyard of what went wrong with hip-hop.

My statements aren't incomplete, they're just in-progress. It's a debate and a discussion.

Instead of going to war, we should put the money into arts and culture and let creative people define what Britain is.

I'm still working out my opinions - it's always a question mark. I leave loads of space open, and people don't like that.

In the beginning [of my career] I definitely felt a responsibility because I was representing a bunch of people [Sri lankans] who never got represented before. I felt this responsibility to correct that situation, to be like, "Look, you can't discriminate against refugees and Muslim people and blah, blah, blah . . ."

Creativity needs time to harness before it goes out, and because that's difficult, memes have become the creative language.

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.