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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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" Urban is not actually my world. It was me trying something out, basically. I come from a gospel background. "

" I'm a musical geek. It's like there's this big, wild universe in my head, and I love to express it. "

" 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. "

" Different cultures produce a different 'cool.' And your perception of 'cool' changes depending on where you are. "

" You can make what you want. People care about what the artist has to say, what the sound is, and how it affects them. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" I got into music through just being inspired by my brother and sisters. They all sing, play instruments and write - and they're very good at it. "

" You get so close to your own music that you can't see the beauty in it. I had to learn to let go. It's good to be less precious. "

" 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. "

" I have to be honest: I think production is mad - exciting - because, of course, you're creating the record. When you're a singer, you're just singing. Creating the music, directing, and seeing where it's gonna go in production is very, very exciting. "

" 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. "

" My ethos is musical freedom: to create whatever I want. "

" 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. "

" I'm all for trying anything once; otherwise, you end up like David Guetta - reproducing the same formula over and over. "

" I have learned that while your putting your record together you can get so caught up in making what you want that you forget what you wanted in the first place. "

" When I listen to a Coldplay record, you're gonna hear an indie band, and you know that's what you're gonna get from Coldplay. With myself, I'm not sure it's the same. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I really enjoy 'festival life,' as it were, and I love the reactions when I bring out my guitar on stage. The crowd are always a bit like, 'What the hell is this urban guy doing with a guitar,' and that's what I love - the shock element of it all! "

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" Branding your song is the worst thing you can ever do. That's turning your song into a product. "

" I'm a perfectionist, and to actually finish something is good for me. "

" I remember my brother came home with a bass and played a blues solo on it. I just went insane for days afterwards learning that. "

" I'm a hundred percent a rock n' roll guy. "

" I think producing a record for other artists is almost like giving them advice, and I would say that it is easier to produce another artist than it is to produce yourself. "

" Those that know me know that I'm not 100% in love with commercial pop music. It's not my preferred genre - I don't do squeaky clean pop. "

" 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. "

" 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. "