This is the kind of fashion I grew up on - a good pair of trainers, great denim - and I will always love high-end streetwear.

I first became interested in style when I was 16 and I had my first couple of gigs. I realised I couldn't look like the people I was performing to. Not in a condescending way, but just that it would be weird if I was wearing exactly what someone in the crowd was wearing.

I was 18, and I either wanted to go to university in the States, and experience it like how it is in the movies - you know, date a cheerleader, be the coolest guy on campus - or I wanted to take a year and focus on what I wanted to do. I got into all the universities I applied to, but I took a year off anyway and said, let's see what happens.

Gone are the days when you'd have to tune in to a mad illegal radio station late at night to be able to hear the rapper of your choice. That's all changed now. That's all gone out of the window. And I feel like I represent that change. I represent the era of iPods and Shuffle and things like that.

I've definitely done something that's made my mum and dad forever proud.

I think it's imperative to have faith or religion, because it's good to have morals, to be kind to others.

When I feel like I'm renowned enough, I'd love to do a heritage-type line, but that takes time.