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I think it's important to earn your fan base and not just try to immediately advance to the top. If you ride to the top quickly, you're liable to fall as quickly. Take your time. It's a long journey ahead of you as an artist. There's nowhere that you're supposed to be other than right now living inside of your art.

I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they're happy if they do get it.

I don't know any musician who got to the top without hard work. Take whoever you want. They all work bloody hard, harder than you think.

I wasn't thinking of competing with any artists as such, I was more thinking of being among them, and sharing thoughts with them; like sharing views, ideas, etc.

I think I'm no different from any artist in music. At least once, you want to see your name up on the top.

You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.

Once artists are expected to shock, it's that much harder for them to do so.

I think artists are driven by the engine of their own talent, but it's a question of what use they put it to.

The trouble with the artists this year is they are all obsessed with Twitter and headlines. It feels like they are all getting a bit above themselves.