I fly like paper, get high like planes If you catch me at the border, I got visas in my name.

There's a bit of hope that a song can be about anything. If you want to write a song about anything, you can, and you don't have to put it through th….

With homogenized culture, even if you feel frustrated, you'd have to write a Taylor Swift song to get heard..

Retirement: a brand new beginning! How wonderful!.

By the time it came to the 90s, the late 90s, being a businessman was the beacon to uphold. We've been having the concept of the best rapper equals t….

Here we are at the edge of the world, the very edge of Western civilization, and all of us are so desperate to feel something, anything, that we keep….

I feel so terrible for the kids now. In London, even people in their forties can't afford to buy a house or have kids..

You have to have your fashion stylist person not sell out and sell your s - t to another pop star because they can pay them twice as much, and do it ….

I feel like I can't really have a comment..

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 ….

People say we're similar with Lady Gaga, that we both mix all these things in the pot and spit them out differently, but she spits it out exactly the….

I named my first album after my dad because I wanted to find him. My second album was named after my mom because I felt like I learned all my creativ….

When I came to England in '86, my first week of school was terrible because I would put my hand up to answer things, and no one would choose me becau….

I wanted to represent a different decade, and I wanted someone who goes back further than me. I go back the furthest on this thing, I never really no….

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

In the beginning [of my career] I definitely felt a responsibility because I was representing a bunch of people [Sri lankans] who never got represent….

I dont support terrorism and never have. As a Sri Lankan that fled war and bombings, my music is the voice of the civilian refugee..

Instead of going to war, we should put the money into arts and culture and let creative people define what Britain is..

In England right now you're not good enough until you get validated..

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..

I never pigeonholed myself - the only reason you'd want to pigeonhole is to monetize your business and, as a person, I don't see the importance of do….