Coming from an African background, obviously the foundation of the family home is education, probably because my parents had to work a lot harder for everything that they've got in this country.

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 can wear a suit, sweatpants, a long tee shirt, and a denim jacket all at the same time.

Hopefully, young people will see that you can be young and make the sacrifices to follow your dreams.

Grime is a particular style of music. You've got electro, funk and garage; grime is its darker side. It's constantly evolving.

I'm just a young person trying to fulfil his potential and be the best he can be at what he wants to do... I guess that's why people connect with the music.

I'm so down to earth, I'm bringing gravity back.

Music has no race. It appeals to everybody.

I feel like I'm indirectly showing people, not that there's another way, but just that if you really have a dream, you should try and give it a go.

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

I pray as much as possible.

Sometimes the best helping hand you can get is a good, firm push.

O, believe, as thou livest, that every sound that is spoken over the round world, which thou oughtest to hear, will vibrate on thine ear!

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Going into auditions, there is a wonderful butterfly feeling in your stomach - an equal balance of being utterly terrified and exhilarated that this is your chance.

I went hunting, I shot a deer, and it mortified me. I just couldn't do it again.

There was hell in her eyes! She was worn and jaded Her soul is at war with the life she has led. As I looked on that face so strangely faded I wonder God did not strike me dead.

You insist that there is something a machine cannot do. If you tell me precisely what it is a machine cannot do, then I can always make a machine which will do just that.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

By Heaven! it is a splendid sight to see For one who hath no friend, no brother there.

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