Authenticity

“But that doesn’t make me a grime artist; I’m just a rapper.”

“A movie star gets a script and he says, how can I change this script to suit me. A movie actor gets a script and says, how can I change me to suit this script?”

“Мы никогда не будем умны чужим умом и славны чужою славою.”

“The truth of the matter is that there is no ascertainable face behind the various masks every story-teller is creating.”

“It was really important for me to be my own person and to be unique to who I am.”

“As an African writer I did not have to sound like a carbon copy English boy if I wrote in English.”

“Live in your truth. Share your gifts.”

“Find out who you are and do it on purpose.”

“I’m not going to compromise or not say what I want for anyone.”

“An artist is above all a human being, profoundly human to the core.”

“I never objected to playing James Bond, I just didn't want to do JUST that.”

“結局、自分で理解してる言葉でしゃべることが大切なんですよね。”

“Eu crio, outros copiam.”

“It isn't how good people may say you are, you know yourself whether you have made good; it's what you think when you lie in bed at night, considering what you have achieved that day, which really counts.”

“I never put those labels or identity metrics on myself.”

“My music is about my life and I try to keep it as real as possible.”

“I never put anything into a picture that I don’t actually see when I’m painting a subject.”

“Before I was ever an artist, that was always who I was.”