Mura Masa

“It's very white in Guernsey, not racist, but there's not a lot of understanding about different cultures there. So I grew up there then moved to Brighton and found all these other people with different experiences, different narratives.”

“I feel like people are now praying for some authenticity and some human touch to music. There's no simpler outlet to that than guitar and piano.”

“I got into James Blake quite early, like when I was early teen, and that was really important for me.”

“You're not really taken seriously when you're on SoundCloud because anybody can upload. It's the same as standing on a street corner and trying to push your mixtape.”

“I think there's a huge pivot in popular music, and just in culture in general, towards art that is vulnerable and emotionally honest.”

“There's only so many ways you can cope with being in dire means, and one way is humour.”

“When I started making music I wanted it to have a narrative and be conceptual, but as time went on I thought it was probably more practical for a first album just to have good music.”

“What's wrong with being a snowflake? I think if you're calling someone a snowflake that just means you've been upset by something they're saying. We're all vulnerable, get over it.”

“A lot of electronic musicians probably wouldn't be bothered making an album, which strategically makes total sense.”

“I'm very much a nostalgic optimist.”

“There's a need for music that has urgency and emotional honesty. That's why people are reintroducing themselves to guitar music - that instrument has an ability to emote.”

“When I was growing up in the early noughties, I remember the time being very serene, peaceful and innocent. But actually there was Tony Blair's oil wars going on halfway across the world.”

“I think I can pinpoint the moment that I realized that I enjoyed hip-hop music and it was the video game called Need For Speed Underground.”

“I did shows for a while without a rider, actually, because nobody tells you that it comes out of your fee.”

“There is maybe a danger of dwelling on the past, but I think that's far less dangerous than moving forward without learning and not being able to find joy in happy memories and things like that.”

“I was always heavily interested in underground musical movements, the post-dubstep scene; Mount Kimbie were coming out, and bands like that.”

“I think the first song I remember hearing was Joni Michell's 'Big Yellow Taxi,' my mom played it for me on the car radio.”

“I like having the radio on, that way you're challenged to listen to things that aren't your choice.”

“There was a footballer, Matt Le Tissier, from Guernsey. But as far as music, no, not many people have come out of there.”

“I've always appreciated having a wide music taste, despite making what a lot of people would call electronic music.”