Basically, if you go looking for trouble, it'll come find you.

Sometimes I wake up in the morning and feel like going straight back to bed. But I still have to get up and work, and I still have to take advantage of the chances I've been given in life.

Garage music came up when people weren't paying attention.

No one goes straight to happiness after a breakup.

You can't please everybody. I give up. I'm not trying to. I don't care. Leave me alone with that.

Americans have their issues with skin colour, even within the black community, with light and dark skin; it's crazy - but no one's oblivious to it.

I would say my greatest musical influences have been Ella Fitzgerald and Mary J. Blige.

I got into hip hop from my uncle; he was always playing us Kool G Rap and Big Daddy Kane. He was a bad boy, and my mum was not really happy that I was hanging out with him.

Adele ain't soul.