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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.' "
Labrinth
Jump
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Cool
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" I have eight siblings, and we formed a group called Mac 9. I was Mac 7. "
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" As a breed, I think artists are never 100% satisfied with their work, and we will always want that little bit of extra time to put the final gloss on it. "
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" It's a lot easier producing for people or being in the background, and they can take all the fire from the front. But in order to express the ideas that I have without any kind of contamination, I thought it would be a cool thing to be out front. "
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" I try as much I can after every live performance to read all the comments my fans post on Facebook and Twitter, as this helps enormously for me to understand straight from fans what worked and what didn't. "
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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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" Different cultures produce a different 'cool.' And your perception of 'cool' changes depending on where you are. "
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" One thing I always really enjoyed about Quincy Jones' production technique was that there were so many layers to every song. Like, one week you'd hear a new trumpet-line, then the next week you'd hear - be hearing a new guitar-line. "
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" I think, as an artist, I wear a lot of different hats, and people have to join all of the dots. "
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" I don't see categories; I don't see styles - l see them all gelled together. And it was gospel that definitely helped me to do that. "
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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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" The first tour an artist does is a strange one... because you can never tell how the audience is going to react. "
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" I'm a hundred percent a rock n' roll guy. "
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" My ethos is musical freedom: to create whatever I want. "
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Create
" 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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Home
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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'm a perfectionist, and to actually finish something is good for me. "
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" I actually tried to learn the dictionary at one point. It didn't work; I only got through the first few pages. "
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" Everyone in my family has been in music - my cousins, my grandmother, my grandfather - so it's quite a big family tree. "
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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 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'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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" Urban is not actually my world. It was me trying something out, basically. I come from a gospel background. "
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" My fans are like, 'Lab does what he does,' which is really cool. If I came out with a Jack White rock tune tomorrow, people would be like, 'Yeah, cool man,' which is great. "
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" English urban artists were very used to making secondhand American music, and I thought that was boring. "
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" I've got perfectionist issues, as I can't seem to let tracks out the studio - it drives my manager nuts. "
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