Pirate radio is like street art.

I'm paranoid of people hating on me.

You won't feel inferior in my sportswear!

All my early lyrics were about confidence.

'That's Not Me' video cost me 80 English pounds.

Adele texts me all the time and keeps me in check.

I feel like I'm the chosen one, but I chose myself.

The star, the person who's on the mic, always gets seen.

If you don't put your crew on your album, you're a snake.

I definitely think that my vibe has rubbed off on Drake a bit.

I think 'Inception' was a sick idea, but they didn't do it correctly.

I think the grime scene is one of the sickest, most diverse scenes ever.

I feel like the Earth is a re-print of a re-print of a print of a re-print.

I don't think grime has ever been respected; it's not seen as a nice sound.

Radio 1 doesn't exist to me. I don't judge my success by anything they say.

Don't compare me to Stormzy. Me and Stormzy are both legends in our own right.

I can't make hard street music for the rest of my life. Your references change.

A good diss track needs to have some facts in it and definitely tell some truth.

I'm winning even if I have zero pence in my bank account, because my mind's free.

It's important for anybody who finds success to show other people where to find it.

When I was trying to make songs to go to America, to go to Japan, they'd never work.

Becoming a commercial scene? I don't think people in grime would be happy about that.

Thank you to everybody who was there for me when I was going through depressed times.

Songwriting has really allowed me to enjoy life and look at it from an objective place.

When I do music videos, I like to do a take, then see how it looks, so I can correct it.

When I was younger, I was very wild, and I didn't really have my head screwed on properly.

'No fear' is a mindset that I stand for. It's the reason why I've got to where I am today.

I was about 18 when I started making music, making beats. My mindset was totally different.

A lot of us who've made grime might be in the chart, but that is because of the country we are in.

Everyone knows their wrong from right, so when people are being racist, they know they're being ignorant.

I don't watch the news because I understand that I'm like a science lab. Whatever I take in is how I feel.

I don't know what I'm going to end up doing, but its definitely in the right direction for freedom and truth.

I am for feminism. I stand up for women standing up for themselves in the same way I stand up for being black.

I want to show the young generation that success is not something you search for externally: it is from within.

I was working so hard at music and trying to do this whole 'industry' thing and realised that it wasn't for me.

There's a lot of oppressed people in Tottenham, but people in Tottenham also know how to turn pain into triumph.

'Konnichiwa' was made because I don't like the industry. I really had to remove myself from it to understand myself.

England is so black and white, so plain, like a burger with nothing on it. No salad, nothing. That's why it's so real.

Boy Better Know, when we die, people are going to realise that we are just seven guys who just, like, try to have fun.

I did drama at school, as a kid, but I ain't been to, like, acting school or anything. I was in a couple of school plays.

I was like, 'I can't do grime. That's for kids.' - I was 20 at the time, and I thought I was a gangsta, a proper rude boy.

I go to award ceremonies, but I always like to be in my world. That's the only place I can control where I won't get upset.

When I finally got there, to where I thought was the top, I wasn't doing what I was doing in the beginning. I was not happy.

I have been wearing Air Max for so long, since I was seven playing around in the estate; I feel like I know my Air Max well.

With the music that I've put out, I realized that putting pressure on an album isn't always the right thing to do for yourself.

When I was a kid, I used to stop bullies. I'd get so angry when I saw people being bullied. I'd be like, 'Stop doing that to him!'

In school, I wasn't like the cool guy who had all the new clothes and had all the girls. I felt like the world saw me as an idiot.

Being in an industry where money talks, everybody involved in the 'Dare To Dream' project came to a conclusion to sign it to Interscope.

I put three productions of my youngest brother Jason on my album, on 'Konnichiwa,' and that made me happy, to be able to do that for him.

When I was younger, I was an aggressive fighter but I'm growing into someone who understands we don't have to answer things with violence.

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