If you narrow the playing field, the next generation has less to put out, to eat and regenerate from.

It's the only thing to do when you're in London - hang out in a taxi.

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.

I'm not sticking up for white kids - I'm going to have a barrage of hate mail - but it's true. If you're poor, you're really poor.

You have to constantly redefine who you are.

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