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I saw firsthand where the music we made ended up. It turned up in sterile bullshit clubs in LA, separated from the spirit we made it in.

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Kala is about my mum and her struggle–how do you work, feed your children, nurture them and give them the power of information?

Interview to URB (2007)

Who the hell is huntin' you?
In the BMW
How the hell they find you?

Google’s more powerful than any government now – people think it’s God. They’re storing all our data and one day they’re going to turn against us.

My approach to politics is that I never said I'm smart. But why aren't I allowed to write about my experience?

Interview to Rolling Stone (2010)

When I come back to London, I feel really safe and familiar. But sometimes I feel like I'm on standby, waiting to go somewhere else – where something else is happening.

Interview to Metro (2007)

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The emphasis of study upon a particular aspect of music is in itself ideological because it contains implications about the music's value.

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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Thomas Carlyle Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827)

Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.

Eduard Hanslick

Above the pitch, out of tune, and off the hinges.

François Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)

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