My goal, my aim is to be a superstar, but not in a cheesy way. I want to go to America and do what they do. But better!

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.

There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.

These days, all I ask Fate is that the people she hurls into my life, whether they are evil or good, or morally bipolar, should be amusing to one degree or another.

At one hundred, surely you learn to overcome loss and grief—or do they hound you till the bitter end?

For a brief moment, I considered deconstructing the song and going down a cerebral road, but then I realized it would kill what is most powerful about it.

No man can have a right to impose an unchosen obligation , an unrewarded duty or an involuntary servitude on another man. There can be no such thing as " the right to enslave .

And it is very moving because one has to see the site not as just another site of development but it is a very special site. It is a site that souls and hearts of all Americans.

I'm amazed that anyone is interested in what I have to say.

If you can't dance on it, it isn't coffee.

I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability.

There's nothing cheap about loyalty.