“You have to decide what's important to you and work it out. When I'm with my family, I try to concentrate on my family and when I'm at work, I try to concentrate on my work.” TryingImportantMy FamilyWorking ItWhat's Important Author:JJ Ramberg
“I just know that he's Robbie Williams - he's massive, that's all I know! He nailed it. Working in the studio with him was cool. I got there at about six in the afternoon and then stayed until six in the morning. We only worked for like two hours, the rest of the time we were just chilling out the back. The way Robbie handles everything... he's a star, but there were never any pretensions, no ego. He put effort in.” KnowsWayTwoStarsHoursEffortMorningEgoSixStudiosHandleMassiveAfternoonChillPretensionChilling Out Author:Dizzee Rascal
“I found it easy to produce. I'm not the musical guy. I can't read and play music like that, but put some drums and a sample in front of me and I can whip it up nice, and I'll work out some keys and find some interesting instruments to put under it.” I CanPlayGuyFoundEasyInterestingNiceFrontsProduceKeysInstrumentsMusicalWork OutWhipsSampleSome InterestingWhip It Author:Dizzee Rascal
“The important thing for me is that I try to understand the culture. Everything I thought I knew about the country was either through TV, music, movies or hopping in and out when I did shows. You can't just get the US through being in Miami, LA and New York. Middle America is the place to understand real America.” TryingImportantRealCountryShowsAmericaCultureMiddleNew YorkTvsImportant ThingsMiamiHoppingMiddle America Author:Dizzee Rascal
“There's just something about being English. When you travel the world you feel more grateful.” WorldFeelsGratefulTravel The World Author:Dizzee Rascal
“I'm trying to give people the chance to put out their music without the bullshit pressures of other labels.” PeopleGivingTryingChancePressureLabelsBullshit Author:Dizzee Rascal
“Other than my Instagram - very recently - I'm not out there. I'm not in the papers every week, I've managed to curb all that. I've never turned up at a party just to be snapped. It's not my kind of thing.” KindPartyWeekPaperPapersInstagramCurb Author:Dizzee Rascal
“I do make myself be interested in places in a way that I don't make myself be interested in people.” PeopleWay Author:Jonathan Meades
“I genuinely find it difficult to think of places that I'd never want to see again. It might be because part of my career has been concerned with writing about topography.” ThinkingWantWritingHas BeensMightDifficultCareersConcernedTopography Author:Jonathan Meades
“If you're going to write about something it becomes a damn sight more interesting than if you're not going to write about it, because you engage with it actively in a way that you wouldn't if you were just passing through or if you were going to St Helens to visit family or if it was a place that made you resentful because you'd always wanted to escape from there.” IfsWayWritingMadeWantedInterestingSightPassingPassingsDamnPassing ThroughResentful Author:Jonathan Meades