When your tongue can taste shadows and your friends are shedding tears, That's when you know that hell is empty 'cos all the devils are here.

The more you close the doors, the less free your ideas can come, and they come from up here and come through you.

In London, the most, the biggest thing we have is culture, you know what I mean? That's what we've done for the past 50, 60 100 years, this is what we've done. My worry is that that will change but actually, that will never change because musicians will just go somewhere else.

When you know a place, your feet have walked it so many times there's a comfort to it.

Actually in the moment in which the idea has life, when it's listened to read, engaged with, acted on stage, it gains another dimension, it becomes three dimensional.

When I began rapping, I only had one form at my disposal. All I had, all I needed was a rhyme verse sixteen bar, thirty-two bar, whatever it was. If I had an idea it came out as a rhyme. When I challenged myself to think beyond that, my first thing other than a rhyme that I wrote was a play.

Allow yourself to be out of your depth at all times.

My point is is that if you are ever comfortable you're not growing and if, unless you are completely out of your depth, your creativity of whatever you are producing, you will never know how strong your stroke it.

Some things, it's very useful to begin without knowing fully where you're going.

There's enough brackets put on us already, we don't need to bracket our creativity anymore than we do.

When you're a story teller, you work out everything. You work out who these people are, what's going to be happening. The environment in which they live.