When I came to England in '86, my first week of school was terrible because I would put my hand up to answer things, and no one would choose me because they couldn't say my name.

People say we're similar with Lady Gaga, that we both mix all these things in the pot and spit them out differently, but she spits it out exactly the same! None of her music's reflective of how weird she wants to be or thinks she is. She models herself on Grace Jones and Madonna, but the music sounds like 20-year-old Ibiza music, you know? She's not progressive, but she's a good mimic.

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

There has been an effect of business rap on the output of today's rap music. But I don't think that's the modern day rapper's fault.

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

It could be the sort of declining grip of the American MTV-nation culture-the fact that MTV doesn't play so much music anymore.