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I have to be honest: I think production is mad - exciting - because, of course, you're creating the record. When you're a singer, you're just singing. Creating the music, directing, and seeing where it's gonna go in production is very, very exciting.

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• I'm not just looking to be famous and attach myself to famous names. I want to make history in the business in terms of creativity.

  

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• I know this sounds weird, but I honestly believe music comes from the universe. Inspiration comes from the universe, and you drag it into your mind.

  

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• I never called myself an urban artist, but that's what I was classed as, and I almost tried to live up to the name instead of who I really was.

  

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• I really enjoy 'festival life,' as it were, and I love the reactions when I bring out my guitar on stage. The crowd are always a bit like, 'What the hell is this urban guy doing with a guitar,' and that's what I love - the shock element of it all!

  

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• I have learned that while your putting your record together you can get so caught up in making what you want that you forget what you wanted in the first place.

  

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• Of course, success takes you where your character can't sustain you.

  

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• I don't think about the success that I've had - I've had a lot of success with music - but I always look at it like it's a new day.

  

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• I don't want to be someone that, when people look back, they think, 'Yeah, cool, he made us jump around for a bit in 2010.'

  

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• My mother brought up nine children, in Hackney, and none of us are criminals, none of us in jail. Her strength made me who I am today.

  

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• I grew up not really having a father figure, and it didn't bother me, because he wasn't there in the first place. But then he started other families, and I was jealous. It was like he was happy without our family.

  

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• I'm a perfectionist, and to actually finish something is good for me.

  

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• I got into music through just being inspired by my brother and sisters. They all sing, play instruments and write - and they're very good at it.

  

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• Urban is not actually my world. It was me trying something out, basically. I come from a gospel background.

  

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• I'm a hundred percent a rock n' roll guy.

  

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• You can make what you want. People care about what the artist has to say, what the sound is, and how it affects them.

  

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• When I was younger, I'd be in the studio three days straight to get something right, and my manager would be like, 'Go home!' Even now, I still sleep in the studio sometimes, but I can't do it quite as often. I've got gigs; I can't have my hobo beard! But if you love what you're doing, you can't stop. It's obsessive.

  

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• You get so close to your own music that you can't see the beauty in it. I had to learn to let go. It's good to be less precious.

  

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• I'm a musical geek. It's like there's this big, wild universe in my head, and I love to express it.

  

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• I definitely didn't wanna be a one-dimensional artist that you can just put into one box. Because, to me, we're all masters of certain energies, and we all create different colours.

  

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• My brothers came home with country, jazz, everything... it was always very normal to me to make any type of music. It was possible to fuse all the sounds, so it never sounded confusing to me to mix jazz and dubstep.

  

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• I've made so many changes to my records because of the way the audience has reacted at the various festivals I've played - I've taken tracks back into the studio, stripped them bare, and built them back up again to create something entirely different.

  

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• I need to make money, but I don't want to be another guy selling his McDonald's to the pop market.

  

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• I'm from Hackney, and it's an area that is not so pretty, and we have a different way of expressing ourselves than somebody from uptown that has lots of money.

  

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• I have to be honest: I think production is mad - exciting - because, of course, you're creating the record. When you're a singer, you're just singing. Creating the music, directing, and seeing where it's gonna go in production is very, very exciting.

  

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  • Singing
  • Mad