Skepta

“I'm not gonna ever announce that I'm going to do an album again. Waking up with that on your head almost doesn't allow you to make the best album you can.”

“Even with the 'Top Boy' series with Ashley Walters... I've been talking like on the creative direction wave with Drake about the series. Making greatness with it. The whole style of what's going on in London, the sound, is real. It's an actual thing that actually happened. So it deserves to be on the telly.”

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

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

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

“There are people who take on different objectives and missions in life. When you grow older, there's a a void - and right now, I'm filling a space where a lot of old rock, grime, hip-hop, punk artists left a vacant space.”

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

“I think some things that are better for me are not good for other people, innit. They need to run theirself. Everybody should run theirself.”

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

“When I was a youth, to be called 'African' was a diss. At school, the African kids used to lie and say they were Jamaican. So when I first came in the game, and I'm saying lyrics like, 'I make Nigerians proud of their tribal scars/ My bars make you push up your chest like bras,' that was a big deal for me.”

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

“Getting in touch with your life purpose is important.”

“In this music industry, you'll find the differences with artists. You get some people who really love music... and you get people who do this because they want to have money or want to be famous.”

“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.”

“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 am blessed to have been able to travel the world doing what I do.”

“Pharrell loves music. When I'm with him, it's like I'm working with someone that I've known all my life, and we're both there to make the sickest track we can.”

“Beyonce's 'Bow Down,' to me, that could be a grime tune. If it's electronic and 140-ish bpm, and people go crazy to it, to me, that's grime.”

“The thing about awards is that a lot of those moments are about the whole world telling you that you deserve it and rah, rah, rah. I'm very appreciative of that, but I love experiencing stuff by myself. Because it feels different. You know the truth, and you can hear what the voice in your head is saying properly.”

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