Tinie Tempah

I'm so down to earth, I'm bringing gravity back.

The way everyone in London is right up against each other makes it very real to you growing up, the fact that people have different lives to you. And that causes problems; of course it does.

When I feel like I'm renowned enough, I'd love to do a heritage-type line, but that takes time.

If I go to an awards ceremony, I wear a suit, of course I do. I am proud to be there. If there are young kids looking at pictures of me, I want them to feel that they should long for the opportunity to go somewhere really smart and wear a beautiful suit, rather than to reject that.

This is the kind of fashion I grew up on - a good pair of trainers, great denim - and I will always love high-end streetwear.

Hopefully, young people will see that you can be young and make the sacrifices to follow your dreams.

My goal, my aim is to be a superstar, but not in a cheesy way. I want to go to America and do what they do. But better!

I don't want to achieve less than my mum and dad.

I've definitely done something that's made my mum and dad forever proud.

At the end of the day, I'm a human being and I just think that's what it is. Challenging stereotypes by just being who I am.

Artists take on an alias that's suitable for their style of music. Everyone had a nickname when they were younger.

I'm starting to think about my life, thinking about where I'm going to be in three years time: who I'm going to be with, where I'm going to be situated myself.

When you look at the Lady Gagas of the world, or the Jay-Zs, or the Black Eyed Peas, these are people who have one album release and it's a worldwide one.

I pray as much as possible.

I definitely believe in God.

I think it's imperative to have faith or religion, because it's good to have morals, to be kind to others.

I actually remember celebrating National Poetry Day at school; I remember having to write and read a load.

People used to say poems were different to songs but I don't think they are.

I enjoyed my upbringing, my siblings did, we're polite, we're respectful, but at the end of the day we're young, we like to have fun. But now, more so than ever, the youth has been vilified to the point where it feels like you can't enjoy being young any more, you just have to sit it out and wait until you get old.

Coming from an African background, obviously the foundation of the family home is education, probably because my parents had to work a lot harder for everything that they've got in this country.