Dizzee Rascal

“To an extent, everyone is jealous of everyone.”

“In Miami, there's a buzz there, everyone out there's partying - it's crazy.”

“When you're actually boxing, unless it's a proper grudge match, it's less about beating the person up and more about being better within yourself. Being patient, timing things, like chess, so really, it's as much down to you as what the other person does - and that's life.”

“I swear too much.”

“Everything kind of happened like: 'Bam!' for me. One minute I was living on a council estate somewhere, then I won the Mercurys, then all of a sudden press and people were in my face.”

“There's a lot going on music-wise in L.A. It's a wicked place to wake up, there's sunshine, you go to the studio, see all these really talented producers.”

“Yeah, I like Three Six Mafia and stuff like that.”

“That's what the world's about - different perspectives.”

“When I go Miami, I go deep-sea fishing. I love doing that.”

“I pride myself on the energy I put on stage.”

“Politicians... say what they say - you might get every now and again a genuine one, innit? But I think people, like, as a whole make the difference.”

“The name Dirtee Stank came from a lyric I had when I was 17 or 16. Lyrical tank, like my name was Frank, going on dirty, going on stank. It sounded like a good name!”

“Where I'm from, there ain't a lot of other options, you know what I'm saying? Entertainment or football or crime. I don't want to spread the message that all you can do is music or sport. You can be anything. Anything. That's the message I like to spread.”

“I don't really class myself as a musician, I can make music but I'm not the greatest technically. There were other people who were technically better than me in school but I knew how I wanted to sound and all I needed was to work out how to do it.”

“I always put people with my kind of background first.”

“Some people will never let the grime thing go, but my fifth album is not meant to sound like my first album.”

“I grew up and learnt to hold my own. My mum was doing two people's jobs. It makes you grow up early. There's less people to talk to, less close people, innit? You're going to end up being lonely because you think a bit more.”

“There's so much to London, so many different kinds of people and people are the key to life, but my favourite part? It's got to be Bow, where I come from.”

“I made hardcore music and that came kind of easy - it was what I knew. But it was a challenge for me to make a big pop tune.”