I have eight siblings, and we formed a group called Mac 9. I was Mac 7.

Everyone in my family has been in music - my cousins, my grandmother, my grandfather - so it's quite a big family tree.

You can make what you want. People care about what the artist has to say, what the sound is, and how it affects them.

I want to be a little bit brave. I want to feel scared sometimes. That's what's going to change the music business, if we have that kind of attitude.

You can't go up to girls and start talking about minor 7ths and expect to pull. It's not going to work.

My grandad's a gospel singer, and his children were singers, too. But I don't believe in God in the same way... not religion; it breaks us up too much. The same with musical styles - it breaks people up. I believe they are all one thing - why not put them together?

I remember my brother came home with a bass and played a blues solo on it. I just went insane for days afterwards learning that.

My brothers came home with country, jazz, everything... it was always very normal to me to make any type of music. It was possible to fuse all the sounds, so it never sounded confusing to me to mix jazz and dubstep.

You get so close to your own music that you can't see the beauty in it. I had to learn to let go. It's good to be less precious.

I never called myself an urban artist, but that's what I was classed as, and I almost tried to live up to the name instead of who I really was.