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" I chose to continue independent because, at the time I was being offered deals, it wasn't fitting into what I'd imagined. I decided to take a gamble on myself and see what happens. "

Little Simz

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Independent

Myself

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" Music is like therapy, you know? It's my escape. It's my way for me to express my feelings and my thoughts. "

Little Simz

Thoughts

You

" I've always been the kid who's known what they wanted to do. "

" Dance was something I'd just done at my youth club, and I used to teach dance when I was 14 to 19, 20 years old. I had my own dance group, and then I got more into the acting stuff, and I started doing things for TV. And then I put that on pause, because I really wanted to focus on my real passion, which is music. "

" I'm a rapper and, obviously, hip hop rap is my main thing. But I also like to dive into different genres and kind of be a bit more experimental and open myself up a bit, whether that's taking influence from jazz or soul or electronic. "

" I'm not easily satisfied with things. I always want to do better. I always want to improve. I always want to grow. "

" I believe in equality: guys have rights, women have rights. It should be the same with race, or class, or whatever. I just like balance. "

" I'm an artist. I'm a musician. I'm not someone you can put in a box. "

" I have a good family. I have good friends. I have people that actually care about my wellbeing as opposed to just work and just need me for work or whatever. Like, people that genuinely look out for me and my health, knowing how much work I put in. "

" I never knew listening to a song could give you goose bumps and make you cry until I listened to Lauryn Hill. "

" I change my mind quite a lot about things, which isn't always a good thing. "

" I was always just an ambitious kid from early. I always knew that I had a purpose and I was destined for something big, great. "

" I enjoy albums, not a song here and there. The recordings I like have been a soundtrack to a universe. "

Little Simz

Universe

Song

" In real life, I'm not the center of attention; I'm in the back, and I listen. So when it comes to writing, I just let it all out. "

" I don't get fazed by things easily. I don't really care about much; I'm just not interested in a lot. I'm just interested in the well being of my close ones, my music, the message I'm portraying, how my efforts are contributing to society. "

" I realised that you have to be honest. When you're being open, that's when people connect with you. You just have to be yourself. "

" Sometimes I look at music as like movies. And so I feel like you can have your comedies, and you can have your dramas, and you can have your romances or whatever. "

Little Simz

Feel

Look

" I don't dress to impress; I've never been that person. "

" I did a show in Germany, and some kid - he was disabled - he was actually in a wheelchair, and he came out to my show, and he couldn't get across to me what he was trying to say, and you could see that he was frustrated because he couldn't fully express himself, and I just felt like, 'Wow, he's just really passionate about me.' "

Little Simz

Trying

You

" Just because I'm British and I represent London to the core, that doesn't necessarily mean I have to stay there. "

" I just write about how I'm feeling at the time. If I feel like being cheeky and a bit straight up and a bit aggressive, you'll hear that in my music. If I feel like being very vulnerable and opening up about something personal, you'll hear that, too. "

" When you feel like a musician you listen to is like you, then they don't feel so far away, and whatever you want to get to isn't so far away. "

Little Simz

Far Away

You

" As cliched as it sounds, music is my only form of expression. So I have to be honest with myself, and with that comes being vulnerable. "

" Taking on different characters and seeing things through the eyes of different people is interesting to me. When I look at what people are going through in life, I try to understand their story. "

" I just always want to be as transparent as possible. "

" I struggled with working with producers because no one openly wanted to give me a chance to rap on their beats. That's just honest talk. No one really wanted to take that risk. "

" When I write, I normally write anywhere that I can feel at peace, so if it's in my bedroom, if it's at the park, if it's by a lake somewhere, wherever I feel calm is where I like to write. "

" I'm the youngest of four. I have two older sisters and an older brother and was raised by a single mother. Basically, my household was just full of life. Everything was lit all the time. "

" I'll leave my house if I need to. Otherwise I'm super comfortable in my own space, in my own company. "

" The very first song I ever wrote was called 'I See Between The Trees,' when I was 9. It was really bad. "

" The whole point of an album is to understand the artist and enjoy the music - it's supposed to make you want to go to a concert to see them in the flesh and get the album on vinyl and be a part of everything. That's what I'm about. "