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.

I think people were genuinely addicted to hip hop in the 90s, addicted to the idea of empowerment. I think it came from [the fact that] the rappers in the 90s, their parents coming from the 70s, had such a rich variety of records to sample.

What's wrong with hip-hop [is that] it became so one-dimensional; it became like a businessman thing. It's run out of creativity. It went so far off about making money that now everyone can do it.

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

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.

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

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.