My job was to entertain. I've always seen myself in the entertainment realm.

The biggest challenge for me is just knowing how to calm down.

My dad worked on ambulances for a while; my mother had a lot of different jobs with the city.

In the G.O.O.D. Music camp, we all come around, and we show ourselves and present ourselves as artists only.

I don't know if it's a failure of imagination on my part, but I'm not going to be writing about Paris in the 1800s. I feel like it would come off as just ludicrously uninformed, even if I did a lot of research.

The Grime guys have kind of rewritten the blueprint for people as far as creativity, songwriting, ownership, doing your own videos... So they're sending out a real positive message I think to people, that you can do it yourself in a punk way, and you can still potentially be successful and get to people.

I grew up in what you might call a relentlessly creative household. We were given art supplies, music supplies... Our mother knew enough to get us started and then stand back and not meddle. My parents never said to us, 'Don't you think you'll need something to fall back on?' They acted as though creativity was completely normal.

Writers don't write writing, they write reading. When I was a kid, I read four or five books a week. And that is how I became a writer.