Quotes from Bugzy Malone

Grime music is still a young culture in itself. And my goal is to move it on to a more respected place.

Boxing is one of the hardest jobs in the world, so when I found my career path, what I'd learnt in the boxing gym meant I was head and shoulders above everybody else.

The main thing I got wrong in boxing was that I could do all the right things, but I didn't believe I could do it, and that's a big chink in your armor.

I feel like it's my discipline in life that has made my music career so long and successful.

I don't have to commit crimes, I don't have to do anything like that to try and make money.

I see people crossing the road without looking, because the lights say that you can. They're acting as if there's never been a police chase, never been someone looking at their phone, or a drunk driver. When I see people like that I can see that they've not got survival skills. That's where me and a few other people differ.

I've put projects out on my own label twice now and been very successful which shows you don't need a major label to back you in this day and age.

Yeah, I get depressed. I think we all do.

My earliest memories of football were watching and being taught about the legends. Hearing about the likes of Diego Maradona and Pele and watching them on VHS tapes.

That's what we're taught to do in Britain - you protect your castle.

Music was more fitted to my temperament. If you were feeling sad and down in the boxing gym, you'd get hit more than you would on a normal day. If you're feeling sad and down and you're sitting in front of a computer with beats, you might make the best song you've ever made.

There needs to be a ruthlessness in the pursuit otherwise the first sign of a challenge and you just give up!

My uncle was a gangster in the real gangster days. I witnessed it, I felt it, I smelt it the situation, I was involved. It was like knowing a movie star.

Collyhurst and Moston was where I learned about professionalism. I'd never had a job prior to walking in the gym, and I witnessed the hard work that went into being a boxer.

I'm running my own business, my own record label, so I'm always dealing with heavy amounts of stress.

The writing and recording process is what I enjoy, it allows me to be creative and work with different artists and producers.

I believe that if you can see it in your head, exactly the way it's going to be, then that's how it's going to be.

Money is a token, money buys freedom, it don't necessarily buy happiness and I've still got things I'm overcoming in my own mind, but money will buy you the freedom to not have to work as many hours. Money will buy you the freedom to spend more time with your family.

I can remember watching MTV Cribs - these amazing houses - and looking around my house where there was no carpet on the floors. You feel hopeless, and that can manifest itself in all kinds of emotions: sadness can turn to anger, and anger might turn to aggression.

Music was a great way for me to express myself, there's topics I talk about in my songs, which I wouldn't have a conversation about in real life.

In the beginning of my career I was so tough on myself, because I knew I had to cement my brand, and I wasn't very kind to myself.

I remember seeing 'Kill Bill' when I was younger and I was like 'wow.'

One of my intentions is to - off the back of my success - show people outside of London that any of us can be successful.

There's nothing good about jail. Having your freedom taken off you... It's nothing to be proud of and it's not any fun no matter how you passed the time.