Stormzy Quotes

A lot of times, older people don't get the new generation.

Without aging white males, I doubt the 'New York Times' would survive. How many young people, females, Hispanics and blacks subscribe to the 'New York Times?'

I don't even listen to hip-hop anymore. All my friends are white and over 40.

I'm too young for Medicare and too old for broads to care.

I'm not always in that good with middle-aged heterosexual men.

I'm too young for Medicare and too old for women to care.

But even with no money you could still go to places like the Scotch Club and, you know, John Lennon might be sitting right over there, but I was certainly not a part of any of that circle. I was truly peripheral.

I talk about race and culture, and that's what my fans respond to. If you grew up in an environment where race and culture were never an issue for you, or where you don't see the humor in our so-called differences, then you might not respond to what I'm doing.

I am looking to get into the grime rap U.K. scene.

Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.

They don't think we're in touch with modern Britain, or understand modern Britain or like modern Britain.

It's not even race; it's a certain type of person that gets 'Pootie Tang.'

One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.

Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn't care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.

Yeah, Dizzee Rascal is a huge influence on what I'm doing. I learnt a lot from him even though he's younger than me.

I think Katy B encapsulates young London in a way I never could. She reps London harder than anyone song-wise since Lily Allen.

Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.

The human race is divided horizontally by age, vertically by sex and diagonally by race

In Europe, you have very different situation than you do in the United States. In Europe, it's very segregated. And you have the diasporas in Belgium that I saw. And they're being radicalized because they're not assimilated with the culture. I don't think we have that same situation in the United States.

I love how close you are to current affairs and social issues here in England. Out in L.A., you have to make an effort to look outside that little microcosm. It's almost like it's a virtual reality to imagine a problem there.

You had your black bands, and you had your white bands, and if you mixed the two, you found less places to play.

To be quite honest, my fans growing up were my friends' parents. Like, 30-plus was, like, 'Mad Men' age group.

The vast majority of my fan mail comes from older women and gay men.

I think the grime scene is one of the sickest, most diverse scenes ever.

In terms of target audience, who cares what a middle-aged guy like me wants; most mainstream are not catering to me at all.