Growing up on our estate, we were all different colours, but we were all really poor. I never really realised that black was a problem for some people.

Chewing Gum' is kind of like the world I wish I grew up in. There wasn't really a sense of community growing up.

The acting world is tough. It's competitive - and even more so for women - but actually, for black female actresses, the issue isn't really that it's competitive: it's that there just aren't enough roles for them in film and TV.

The unpredictability of the weather, the increasing possibility of intelligence introducing a species more powerful than ours, the growing uncertainty that animals can or should be slaughtered for our pleasure, has led many of us to start asking more complex questions about what is and isn't normal.

Before the money or anything, number one, it was just to put out real music, real stuff with a passion, real art.

The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink.

For my first gig, I got $75. I could make money being funny, so I pursued it as a career and have turned it into a lucrative business.

European museums are all dependent on government financing. The moment European governments are under financial pressure, their budgets are cut.