However, my problems with my memory are further complicated by the fact that while I don't have any recollection of things I have actually done, I have very vivid recollections of loads of things that I haven't done.

I exist as an annexe of the BBC. I'm down the road a bit from the main building, in a little hut.

Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be considered hip.

It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political.

I'm used to being the only black guy. I've seriously walked onstage, looked out in the audience, 15,000 people - and I'm the only one in the place. It's no big deal. My whole career's been like that.

I don't think of my music in terms of a career. I just want to get it out there and do it. I'm not manipulating my sound to be like anybody or trying to write to sound like anybody else.

I am fortunate enough with my career that I can speak out to the masses and hopefully be a part of initiating change.

No one set that I ever do is the same. I mean, if I go to a comedy club, and I perform three sets, all three sets are different because anything can happen in between sets.