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

Just make music; don't talk about politics.

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

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.

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

You can't turn up at college in stilettos and say you're gonna be a filmmaker. In the college, they were teaching me avant-garde filmmaking, where I had to make films that were, like, an hour long about nothing. I just refused to do it.

Even if you're frustrated, how do you express yourself? There's no subculture like back in the day.