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

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….

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….

That's what New York is like - you can't have real art happen in an institution because rich people can make the world stop. The stuff on the street ….

We know that those huge U.S. brands do have political sway..

My statements aren't incomplete, they're just in-progress. It's a debate and a discussion..

I felt pissed off because I realized that you have to teach people in a clichéd way how to be happy-and happiness has become too one thing in America….

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

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….

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….

Any piece of art, when you're putting it on a certain platform, if the platform becomes a political place, you can manipulate things..

Nike is the uniform for kids all over the world, and African design has been killed by Nike. Africans no longer want to wear their own designs..

You can't turn up at college in stilettos and say you're gonna be a filmmaker. In the college, they were teaching me avant-garde filmmaking, where I ….

You need everyone to get together and just believe in it, and lead by example that it is possible to be outside the system, and that's really super-f….

Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations thats still surviving..

You have to constantly redefine who you are..

When mayors get together they probably have better conversations and have better notes to share about running different cities, and just do what suit….

If right now, culture's so divisive, it just leaves these millions of people like me out..

What's wrong with hip-hop [is that] it became so one-dimensional; it became like a businessman thing. It's run out of creativity. It went so far off ….

If music's a political place, I'm out..

That's what I miss, being a real human..