I don't think groundbreaking shows such as 'Top Boy' are made every day.

I think music is great at posing a question. It doesn't always have to give the answer, but it can open the dialogue.

There's an energy in people coming together and singing.

My first bars were about wrestling! That was basically all I knew back then.

For me, writing and creating music can be quite a solitary thing.

You fight for your character in the script. It's part of our job to evolve them, show all sides of them.

I feel a lot of hip-hop videos are all about portraying a lifestyle that the artist doesn't even live.

I would be extremely surprised if David Cameron watched 'Top Boy.' But maybe he should. Maybe he should.

I'm always working out how people perceive me, and that's a hard thing to navigate sometimes.

There's so much talent around here, east London in particular is full of talent. Whether that be boxing or football or music.

I'm just trying to humanise situations and represent voices that aren't being represented.

I'm just used to having so much control in music and in acting you have to give that up a bit. Sure, our voices are heard on set, but at the end of the day you can lose an argument. Whereas in music, if I feel the second verse needs to be changed I can change it. I find it really hard as an artist to give up some of that control.

When you come out, and if you're saying something worth taking note of, then people will give you their ears. If you're not, it's whatever.

You may think it's weird working with a cartoon band but there are a lot of characters in grime, especially since the early days.

I'm not into releasing throwaway music for the sake of it.

I would love young girls to look up and see my string section or my brass section or the steel band and be like, 'Wow! I never thought I could do that, that's wicked! I want to be up there doing that.'

He will go down as a legend along with Elvis and the Beatles and Michael Jackson. Bob Marley is right up there. He was a leader for reggae music - he really made it appeal to a world audience.

Initially we were spitting lyrics over garage beats, in that eight-bar gap where there wasn't a vocal. But we were rebellious towards garage because they were rebellious towards us; a lot of their gatekeepers said grime was too violent.

I need to make the album that deserves attention. Everyone's busy. I need to really be saying something.

The first time I ever played Glastonbury I would have never have thought that a grime artist would have ever headlined it.

I think, generally, it is always good to be aware of what is going on.

New Banger' is a statement, but it is more about giving the DJs something for the clubs. I think it should have a lot of club longevity as a tune.

If I looked back on 2019, in ten years' time, and I'd only made club tune after club tune, what's the purpose?

If you're going to do something, it should be fresh and it shouldn't have been done before.