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

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

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

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.

I dont support terrorism and never have. As a Sri Lankan that fled war and bombings, my music is the voice of the civilian refugee.

I come from a generation where you put the art out and had the luxury to sit back and watch the world deconstruct it, and that was valued. Unfortunately now the work lives in a weird context.

If you're talking about coexisting and tolerance then you have to live by example, and you can't have shiny people all the time everywhere, which is what breeds that sort of thinking - this is better than this, that is better than that.