Quotes from Skepta

When I finally got there, to where I thought was the top, I wasn't doing what I was doing in the beginning. I was not happy.

I think 'Inception' was a sick idea, but they didn't do it correctly.

Getting in touch with your life purpose is important.

After touring so much, I was looking for some peace. I found Morocco, and it was perfect. Everything I wanted to feel about peace, I found it there.

Pharrell loves music. When I'm with him, it's like I'm working with someone that I've known all my life, and we're both there to make the sickest track we can.

You won't feel inferior in my sportswear!

To be able to come back to Nigeria and get so much love for my work is my biggest life blessing. I've always hoped to never get lost in translation with me being British-born.

When I was trying to make songs to go to America, to go to Japan, they'd never work.

I am blessed to have been able to travel the world doing what I do.

I've been trying to do this music stuff and work it out for so long... I was like, 'Let's do it for ourselves.' All these songs, we've travelled the world - no record label, nothing. We just did this for us, but the love is very appreciated.

It's not just my music. Not everyone just listens to grime now 'cause of Skepta. They like how we speak. They like the slang. They like how we dress. They listen to the music. It's everything.

If you don't put your crew on your album, you're a snake.

'Konnichiwa,' to me, is a classic because I don't make music for today where everyone is going to judge what I did in two years; they're gonna tell me today.

I don't watch the news because I understand that I'm like a science lab. Whatever I take in is how I feel.

When I was younger, I was very wild, and I didn't really have my head screwed on properly.

When I was younger, I was an aggressive fighter but I'm growing into someone who understands we don't have to answer things with violence.

I put three productions of my youngest brother Jason on my album, on 'Konnichiwa,' and that made me happy, to be able to do that for him.

When I was a youth, to be called 'African' was a diss. At school, the African kids used to lie and say they were Jamaican. So when I first came in the game, and I'm saying lyrics like, 'I make Nigerians proud of their tribal scars/ My bars make you push up your chest like bras,' that was a big deal for me.

There's a lot of oppressed people in Tottenham, but people in Tottenham also know how to turn pain into triumph.

I think some things that are better for me are not good for other people, innit. They need to run theirself. Everybody should run theirself.

I was about 18 when I started making music, making beats. My mindset was totally different.

I'm winning even if I have zero pence in my bank account, because my mind's free.

Beyonce's 'Bow Down,' to me, that could be a grime tune. If it's electronic and 140-ish bpm, and people go crazy to it, to me, that's grime.

Songs like 'One Love' by Bob Marley - they stand the test of time - it doesn't matter - so anytime I write music, I try to write in tune with an emotion, and I hope there are more times like that for everyone.