I don't really see a difference in independent and major labels. To me, it's pretty much the same. There used to be a difference between indies and m….

I just think that funerals are a lot like death itself. You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end of the day, it's out of your control..

The music industry is so tied up politically. They're afraid they might let other voices in..

Whoever's inside is inside; whoever's out is out..

I feel like I'm living in the dead weeds of hip-hop. I live in the graveyard of what went wrong with hip-hop..

When I first came out, I was a film student and my mom sewed clothes. I was already doing a million things then, whatever it took to survive. If I ha….

I come from a generation where you put the art out and had the luxury to sit back and watch the world deconstruct it, and that was valued. Unfortunat….

Just make music; don't talk about politics..

Somebody told me that if you wake up every day and do stuff that's easy, then you're doing the wrong thing. If you wake up every day and do stuff tha….

If you narrow the playing field, the next generation has less to put out, to eat and regenerate from..

My experience has to be funnelled through a black experience or a white experience, or it doesn't exist, because that's how we're going to deal with ….

Even if you're frustrated, how do you express yourself? There's no subculture like back in the day..

I think people were genuinely addicted to hip hop in the 90s, addicted to the idea of empowerment. I think it came from [the fact that] the rappers i….

Businessmen in society are not going to be the ones that promote anything outside of money..

You have to constantly redefine who you are..

Music that was made in the 60s and 70s did come from a really soulful place. The seed for the songs written in the 90s were planted in those songs, e….

My uncle was the first brown person to have a market stall on Petticoat Lane in the 1960s. He worked his way up from the street. He was homeless, but….

Rage and grief are savage companions, but despair is the final undoing..

Culturally, I found myself in a very weird situation: you were the person that had made that journey to the West, and then you were going back to com….

I'm still working out my opinions - it's always a question mark. I leave loads of space open, and people don't like that..

Nowadays, [young musicians] are so quick to be like, "OK, fine, I'll take the cheque, or I'll get the stamp from XYZ, and I'm expanding my brand," ra….