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Grime is still quite new. You can't expect national radio and national media to get it straight away.

I know a lot of grime artists started off on pirate radio, but I missed that era; I was way too young.

I'm into my grime, hip-hop, dance, and house music.

I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.

Life is grim, and we don't have to be grim all the time.

Guitar music or rock n' roll or whatever you want to call it sort of goes away with trends, but it'll never go away completely. It can't die because it's so fundamentally attractive.

The thing with me is, about that - about rock and all that - years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that.

I believe that my music is just about feelings, and the style is just a side effect.

When I listen to most forms of music, in their most raw and pure, it all has a punk edge to me, like Lead Belly, Jimmie Rodgers, Otis Redding or Nirvana.

If someone says 'grunge' or 'punk,' you know what the sound is, but if you say 'No Wave,' it's kind of mysterious. That was the most interesting part and should have been the most inspirational thing about it... here's this collective sonic insanity, and none of it sounds anything alike.