Stefflon Don Quotes

Coke Studio is a big platform for music in Pakistan and I really feel honored to be a part of it.

I had no idea what to expect when we did Ladies' Night. I didn't think it was going to get nominated for a Grammy. I didn't know that we would have to perform on the MTV Awards show.

SDC has a great reputation for putting live music on stage.

To come out in the music business, you only really get one shot. A lot of people get to play small gigs first, and build up that way, without anyone really seeing them.

One of my goals is to find an unsigned YouTube artist and feature them on my album. That's what I wished someone would've done for me.

But MTV relishes its vestigial role as a star maker, so every year it puts all its clout into making the VMAs the biggest, splashiest, loudest show-biz extravaganza of the year, honoring all this music for existing, after a year of paying barely any attention to it.

But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz, whatever, you have to work on your songwriting and you have to work on being able to play in front of people, I think. That performance is how you create the groundwork for a lasting career.

The Grammy is the highest honor in music that we can receive, outside of having fans come and watch you every night and clap.

It confuses me and disappoints me when somebody says, 'What does he do? What does he do?' My records are some of the biggest anthems ever. What do you think, they magically just appear? Obama walked out to my record.

We watch the MOBOs every year and it has always been a dream to be involved.

When you play a show or festival, people know what they're getting; they want it. Then you're thrown onto a show where people are watching TV in their houses, and whether they ask for it or not, we're being played in front of them. There's a lot of negative feedback.

I don't like people who make records and then don't ever perform. If you are going to make a record it's important you get out there so people can see you if they want to and get to hear you if they want to.

It feels amazing to be on the MTV Brand New list. I was shocked when I got told - a good shocked. I'm proper happy about it.

You don't know how a song is gonna do; you don't know where it's gonna live. You know if it feels real, if it feels authentic.

Apart from working on music, I'd rather play big festivals than almost anything else.

I think the recording industry is founded on that principle: to approximate the live experience, to approximate that thing that evaporates as it's happening, disappears as it's happening.

I write songs very quickly, so the 20 minutes of joy I get out of writing a song doesn't compare to the two months of joy I get engaging with the people who like my music.

The BRIT awards is a really great occasion, especially for us Brits, because it shows the talent and support coming from our country.

We cut songs that touch us because if they don't touch us first, there's no way in the world we're going to be able to sell those songs to somebody else.

The music industry needs a TV outlet for hip-hop fans and artists.

I think it's really cool when any of your songs play on the radio for the first time.

I'm not a DJ, I'm not a scenester.

My first Grammy nomination? I was 24 - I was nominated for best new artist of the year.

I will continue making music, whether or not I get opportunities in films. I know I have fans who like to listening to me sing.

I'd love to see Kate Bush, full stop.