Skepta Quotes

I'm not Tupac or this prophetic dude or anything like that. I just want to make music and have fun.

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

I don't know, the word 'famous' just sounds really weird to me, because I'm just me.

I never wanted to be a celebrity; I never wanted to be famous. And in my daily life, I work really hard to not trade on it in any way.

In my proudest moments, I think I had a real hand in the creative force of making 'Star Trek.' But most of the time, I don't think about it.

I don't know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I'm a great gift to the world. I've been very fortunate.

To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

I don't find myself interesting as a person and the details I find boring, quite frankly. You could sum it up in a few words or sentences really: came from nothing. Self-educated. Luck. Energy. Curiosity. Ambition. That's it. Nothing at all can illuminate the work as far as I can tell.

Style? I have no style.

Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists.

I'll never get a Humanitas Award, but I'll have fun.

Other musicians are basically personalities who want to make a name for themselves. All I do is sing old songs in the best way I can. What else is there to know? If you were a blacksmith, what would people need to know about you other than whether you can make a good horseshoe?

I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.

I've got nothing very original to say myself.

I don't really understand why people are so interested in me, personally. I'm just a curator. I'm just telling people things I think are cool.

Treasure is the kind of thing you dig up... or bury! And when people say, 'Oh, he's an icon,' well, an icon is a very old painting hanging in a Russian church! If you want to say something, say something nice about me. Don't call me a national treasure.

We never set out to be superstars.

I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be on posters. I want to be good.

I hope we go down in history for being something more than just another famous act that got ripped off.

We never think about how many awards we've won. We just want to make the best music we can.

I'm not interested in being known for anything other than the work.

Frida Kahlo taught me a lot without ever bragging about anything.

I am quite content to go down to posterity as a scissors and paste man for that seems to me a harsh but not unjust description

I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell an interesting story entertainingly.

When a person feels disposed to over estimate his own importance, let him remember that mankind got along very well before his birth, and that in all probability they will they will get along very well after his death.