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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I definitely didn't wanna be a one-dimensional artist that you can just put into one box. Because, to me, we're all masters of certain energies, and we all create different colours. "

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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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" 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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" 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. "

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