“I grew up and learnt to hold my own. My mum was doing two people's job...” — Dizzee Rascal Quote

I grew up and learnt to hold my own. My mum was doing two people's jobs. It makes you grow up early. There's less people to talk to, less close people, innit? You're going to end up being lonely because you think a bit more.

In the end, music was the only option open to me. It was a blessing I pursued it. I put all my energies into it. I didn't care about no other subjects.

People can't look down on grime anymore, it's an established British genre.

I like that the sight of me can make people happy. That's nice innit? I like that people like my music. I like that you get perks sometimes. Sometimes people treat you better, but through that there's the opposite as well.

I guess I learnt to appreciate old Hindi-movie music from my dad and somewhere down the line picked up jazz as well.

The only thing I learnt in high school is that people are very violent and territorial.

I learnt a lot from my failures.

I've learnt something from every failure. The products I helped design at the first two companies I worked for were utter failures. But now I know why.

I learnt early on that your audience take the songs in the way they want to rather than the way you might want them too.