I think Katy B encapsulates young London in a way I never could. She reps London harder than anyone song-wise since Lily Allen.

I never studied jazz technically; I just know and love the music.

I really love something about being around the recording studios - you know, like, those days in the '80s they'd be, like, in the studio 'til 4, 5, 6 in the morning working on these songs.

Making music is a lifestyle; go to the studio and sit in front of your computer, drum machine or guitar for 10 hours a day. The good stuff will come.

I had a somewhat frenetic childhood because my mum and dad split up when I was five, and then my mum remarried.

I think that that spirit, or at least the raucousness of maybe that, is in there. And then yeah, like, along the way, you fine tune it 'cause you're thinking, like, OK, we need to now turn this into a song.

I used to be a serious sneaker addict, but I've moved on a little bit from those days.