Musician

My mum was well-travelled, well-educated and made me understand from books, from my imagination and from just taking me away on holiday once a year, wherever she could, that the world was bigger than Peckham.

I find it really, really, really hard to have relationships with other men. That's one of my biggest problems. Women I seem to get on with quite well.

I don't have friends, to be honest.

I'd love to have a farm and some space for my kids.

Drake and his camp are people of their word. I've never seen them say they're going to do something and not do it.

I find it hard to network and I have an issue about what people are going to think of me.

I hoard and buy loads of the same things over and over - DVDs, clothes, trainers.

I was stabbed in the neck when I was 15.

My whole journey has been televised: the negative and the positive.

Drake revived 'Top Boy,' if I'm honest with you. You've got to give him a lot of credit.

The only TV show that I've been in that my uncle gives me recognition for is 'Doctor Who.'

I used to eat under my grandmother's dining room table. I wouldn't eat at the table ever until I was about 10.

Using a gun is a coward's way to hurt someone.

My dad spent most of my childhood behind bars. He went to jail 17 or 18 times. It was only when he was diagnosed with cancer in 2004 that we started to have a relationship.

I have done a lot of short dramas that are three, four or five episodes and so that makes the filming process similar to the independent film process; it is very intimate, and it is a small cast and a small crew and everyone is there with a common goal and want the best for that project.

I would love to have a chat with Michael Jackson. For the sole purpose of seeing if he has a deep voice or not. A lot of people say he actually had a deep baritone, but then on TV he always had the high pitched squeaky voice. I would love to spend some time with him.

There were not a lot of roles for a black man like myself that were different. Then 'Top Boy' came. I read the script and I loved that the characters were human.

I have grown up being a father. When my first son was born I was 17. I was a child bringing up a child. I was not capable of understanding what a dad was meant to be.

Whatever I want, the next car or the next house, I stick a picture of it to the back of my door, so I can look at it first thing in the morning and dream it into existence.

I worked in WH Smiths on Sloane Square and my first boss was a woman called June. My shift was half a day on Saturdays, and nine to six on Sundays. I was in and out of the place and only turned up when I wanted to.