Businessmen in society are not going to be the ones that promote anything outside of money.

Now, [hip-hop/grime artists] Stormzy, Skepta, or the Section Boyz have to be validated by Drake, Rihanna or Beyoncé. They're rolled into this one urban culture bubble; it's not really to do with, "I'm specifically f - ked off about my country and what's going on in my town." We're very much only showing success to artists who impress American artists, and I'm one of them.

Predominantly in the West, if you can only have creative voices that are either black or white, I'm going to say whatever the f - k I want, because no one's going before you, and if no one's coming after you, I'm just going to be the freakiest of all freaks!

With homogenized culture, even if you feel frustrated, you'd have to write a Taylor Swift song to get heard.

Besides, isn't it more exciting when you don't have permission?

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 feel so terrible for the kids now. In London, even people in their forties can't afford to buy a house or have kids.