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" I'm just a bit of a dreamer, and I get really in my thoughts. I get so deep with myself at times it's almost very scary. "

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" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" I like it when people have good flow, but I also like it when people actually say stuff. Because sometimes that's a very good distraction, like, to have impeccable flow, but you're saying a lot without saying anything. "

" 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've always loved the English language. I just like words, you know? "

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

" 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. "

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

" I'm not a person who opens up to people, and I feel like music is my way of doing that. "

" I could probably say one thing that I'm excited about is I definitely wanna be an entrepreneur and be a humanitarian and that stuff. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm not desperate to sign, like, a record deal. I'm very hungry, but I'm just not desperate for it. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Singles are for people that want to chart - I'm measuring my success by how well I connect with people. "

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

" I've experienced racism and run-ins with the law, and it's a real thing, and it happens where I grew up. It's something that not a lot of people want to talk about. I feel like I have a duty, and I wouldn't be honest or true to myself if I didn't speak about it. "

" 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. "

" My mom raised me to be a strong person. "

" I just wanted to kind of break down those gender stereotypes and just say everyone's equal, everyone's their own person, everyone's their own individual. "

" I get 'female Kendrick' quite a lot. I'm definitely not complaining. At the same time, I want to be the female Simz. I just want to be me. "

" 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. "