When you've been raised in care, rap music isn't just about guns and sexism. They're talking about real things you can hang on to, problems of identity that you have sympathy with. It's not just about the music, with rap: when I was in care, it meant a whole lot more than that.

I was angry but not at God. I feel that you are closer to God when you are messed up. Definitely. That's when you most need God, and God cannot control what man does.

Everyone wants to look their best, everyone has dreams of wanting to look like something else. But we are who we are.

I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.

I could be equally happy on a film set or in the middle of a field.

I like to stretch my acting muscles.

I will check the internet for at least an hour every morning scanning worldwide news to do with child abuse. So if you're constantly putting yourself in an environment where you're checking up on social economics or homelessness problems, if you keep yourself aware of it, you don't really have a day off.