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I've always loved hip-hop, since I was a kid, that's the music that I loved. I think everyone of our generation kind of fantasized about hip-hop in some ways.

Hip hop was definitely, far and away, the primary influence for at least 10 years of my life. From about 7 or 8 on till about 15 or 16, that's all I listened to.

I love hip hop. It's such an appendage for me. It's something that's always shaped my experience out in the world.

I don't dislike rappers or hip-hop or people who like it. I went to the Def Jam tour in Manchester in the '80s when rap was inspirational. Public Enemy were awesome. But it's all about status and bling now, and it doesn't say anything to me.

I was a fan of heavy music - first metal, then punk, then hip hop.

I love hip-hop. I have gone through many difference phases in my love affair with hip-hop.

We have this really retro vibe and style of songwriting and, personally, I wasn't embracing the current state of music until I fell in love with hip-hop. It felt good to suddenly embrace where music was headed, and I think hip-hop is the best at that, because it feels so progressive and everybody wants to be the best.

I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.

Hip-hop was my first audience - I would rap in the mirror, walk down the street and listen to my Walkman.

I'm a huge hip-hop fan from way back in the day.