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

I don't have a community like a black community to belong to [with] a musical platform that's been built for years and years and years, or the film-making culture, and I don't have the white one to belong to.

That's what's inspiring to me - finding someplace where people haven't already seen themselves in a certain light.

Art is supposed to be about creativity. But the same people are the same art darlings every month, and it's a bit annoying. It's supposed to be diverse and interesting and conceptual and have weird concepts in a comfortable place.

You have to have your fashion stylist person not sell out and sell your s - t to another pop star because they can pay them twice as much, and do it for the belief and the love of art.

If right now, culture's so divisive, it just leaves these millions of people like me out.

Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel it's necessary to yak about bullshit in order to be comfortable?