If I ever meet a writer or a painter, I don't presuppose that they are like the work they are presenting.

Ideas for songs can come from something as simple as a photograph and letting my imagination run wild on an old photograph that I found, or to a film that I have seen or to just most of the time, just daily walking through life and keeping your eyes open.

I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.

In the same way, I write some of my more difficult pieces when I'm at very happy stages in my life.

It [ "Not For Long"] was the biggest song that I've had, and I actually heard it on the radio multiple times.

I have learnt through doing interviews throughout my life that the way that somebody can write about something can change entirely how it was meant, or what actually happened.

The first song I heard from me was Meek Mill ["I Don't Know"], it was his first single before he went (to jail). I remember the first time I heard it was like eleven thirty at night, and I was like, "Yo, this is crazy!" And, I was smiling from ear to ear.