What Rare [albom] allows me to do is gonna show people other things that I'm capable of 'cause they really haven't heard a lot of things outside of the rap stuff that I do.

First off, I think nudity is taken differently in America, though they did make a fuss in England, too.

I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.

The way I make music is unique to myself and the way I have lived my life - no one else would tell that story in the same way that I do.

It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent.

But even when I do give interviews, I always come across as such a completely different person. It seems like there's no controlling it anyway.

I studied art just short of the level where you can earn a degree.