Musician

I go everywhere quiet - like a ninja. Always have done. Think big, move quiet.

In Miami, there's a buzz there, everyone out there's partying - it's crazy.

I see all that celebrity stuff now as whatever, man. What's more important is that everyday people are liking my music, it's got to that stage. I've worked really hard for a long time for it to come to this point, where I'm putting smiles on people's faces, and I'm loving it.

Even I find myself boring sometimes.

Seeing different sides of life, seeing different sides of society, that's what London's all about. When I was young my mum always tried to make me do that.

I made hardcore music and that came kind of easy - it was what I knew. But it was a challenge for me to make a big pop tune.

Music's something that I really wasn't pushed into, it was something I just kinda chose, I just kept pushing myself, and it was all down to me.

If you believe, you can achieve, innit.

I don't really class myself as a musician, I can make music but I'm not the greatest technically. There were other people who were technically better than me in school but I knew how I wanted to sound and all I needed was to work out how to do it.

When I was young I used to watch MTV, Nirvana, or Guns N' Roses.

Everything kind of happened like: 'Bam!' for me. One minute I was living on a council estate somewhere, then I won the Mercurys, then all of a sudden press and people were in my face.

Grime 4 Corbyn? I just don't know what I'm supposed to feel about that - does he even listen to grime?

I actually really like DJ Assault - a Detroit a ghetto tech DJ, who's produced good music that's influenced me a bit.

I always put people with my kind of background first.

I'm not that guy in the suit, speaking the Queen's English. I don't need to be. I've done enough. I can go on 'Newsnight' as me.

I liked going to the Caribbean, just having nice holidays, do you know what I mean?

People talk about the pop part - they don't talk about me being an independent artist. I made it look easy, that's the problem!

I'm not afraid to embrace different music and different culture and put it in the music.

There's things that I say that people wouldn't say. And just putting across my vulnerability as a person in my music as well. A lot of people wouldn't do that, everyone wants to be hard.

I come from nothing, man.