I moved to New York - I attended NYU, did a BFA in Acting at NYU. I was really into hip-hop, so I started battling, like '8 Mile.' I used to rap battle.

Sir, allusion has been made, in an early stage of this debate, to the history of the excitement which once pervaded a considerable part of the country, in reference to the transportation of the mails on the Lord's day.

It's a real uphill challenge to battle the white-guyness.

All I'm thinking about today is cleaning my bathroom.

I like bubble baths.

I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand.

I've never backed down from a fight and I relish a good debate.

The tension between 'yes' and 'no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot', makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.

Opinion pages have an impact on public debate, and they sometimes reveal things the government would rather have kept quiet.

Blair... is accusing us of executing British soldiers. We want to tell him that we have not executed anybody. They are either killed in battle, most of them get killed because they are cowards anyway, the rest they just get captured.

I've been a fan of grime for a while - I used to watch the battles on YouTube when I was younger.

I'm battling cancer. It's another battle I intend to win.

As an artist, your only way to battle your label if you have a discrepancy is to go to court. I don't understand why you can't both agree if you have an accounting problem to have a third party to assess the situation.

Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.

In Europe we know that the great teams always improve and we will have to do battle with them.

We got a little waylaid along the way. The whole problem started about 10 years ago with management and legal battles, then still trying to make albums while I was doing all of that.

The evolvement of proteolysis as a centrally important regulatory mechanism is a remarkable example for the development of a novel biological concept and the accompanying battles to change paradigms.

A bath and a tenderloin steak. Those are the high points of a man's life.

With 'Poison,' I'm sure some people just hated the movie, but it also got caught up into a debate about arts funding because it was a film that received a National Endowment for the Arts Public Grant, and it won the prize at the Sundance Film Festival.

People often link grime with other things, like street culture, and clashing, and MC battles and whatnot. But no one's ever talked in misogyny in grime. That's often linked to hip-hop, I know people talk about that is a problem in hip-hop. But not grime.