Santan Dave

As a human, I'd say I'm pretty intermediate.

I just can't belong to a genre, because I don't know what I would want it to be.

I like making music when no one's really there, so it's just you and yourself: you're more free.

Grime is its own sound. There's a lot more to it. It's like a sound, culture, style - the way that they dress and speak.

Rap, for me, I go at any tempo and any sound of beat and incorporate melody as well.

Black is confusing. Where does the line start and stop with what is black and what isn't black? People that are mixed-race, or, imagine being from Sri Lanka or Bangladesh, people might say you're black but your features are so non-black, like you've got straight hair, you've got like a sharper nose, or such.

Psychodrama' is a form of therapy and it is just expressing how you feel in whatever way is the most creative to you. Some people act it out, some people sing it out, people find their own different ways.

It was a pleasure to work alongside Sir David Attenborough and Hans Zimmer.

Where I'm from, if you can't see who and what is good for you and who is bad for you, you could end up with the wrong friends, in places where you don't need to be, with people that you didn't need to bring into your house, giving your trust to those who could turn on you.

I'm not a grime act, I'm not a rapper, nor am I melody man. I just make music.

The biggest lesson that I've learnt is that things can change so quickly, never get used to one thing because everything can flip on it's head.

I've always like 'Dragonball Z' and 'Naruto,' that kind of drawing. My older brother draws so he was always drawing 'Dragonball Z' characters and so I got into it from there.

I think we internalise a great deal. Music can draw that stuff out of even the hardest person.

A very bland eleven-year-old, playing computer games. I went to a local primary school but I wasn't anything special or anything insanely interesting. I didn't have a crazy personality. I was somewhat book smart, but I wasn't hanging off the teacher, nor was I messing up in class. I wasn't doing much to disrupt anything. I was just there, existing.

I learnt what I am not good at: listening, staying focused, turning up on time, following orders... I realised that I was going to have to pull off something special, something different.

The moment I started learning to play the piano it changed my whole dynamic with music and with school. Suddenly I had a reason to be there, or at least at my music lessons; it just took hold of me.

I'm not really good in public spaces, I'm not really good with people, I'm not really good at a lot of things.

I've given her bragging rights. That's something my mum's definitely big on, like any African parent. Like any parent.

It's what I do my entire life when I'm not doing music. If I'm in a hotel room in Sweden, or on a plane to Vancouver, I'm watching football. I'll try to talk about other stuff, too, but football is a lifestyle.

There was a sort of chain in school. I wasn't, like, mad at the top, but I wasn't right at the bottom, either.

Music and football are two industries where black people excel, because talent is undeniable. You can't deny an amazing voice. You can't deny amazing athletic prowess. Physically, it's evident. But in other industries, circumstance is more of a thing.

When I'm performing, the crowd just disappears, it's like everyone merges - one big person. You just say the words and people will say the words back to you. And it's just so rehearsed. I have a lot of songs I couldn't forget the words if I tried. So you get in there, you lose yourself and it's all good.

Grime must be its own genre.

We're all just humans at the end of the day.

I don't think that one moment in people's life should define them. Within reason: I emphasise that.