Dizzee Rascal Quotes

I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided.

When I sit down to write, I consider myself an artist.

I don't know, I've always written songs that are mainly about attitude, not me personally.

I still to this day get the most inspiration from rap lyrics.

All my songs are where I am.

Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time, hopefully, they already exist somewhere else.

Rappers tend to use words sometimes that just rhyme and don't really mean nothing.

The act of song writing and recording became one and the same to me; because I essentially recorded everything I did from the day I began trying to write songs. I've always had a lot to say. I'd always written poems.

To be an artist, you need to play inside your work.

Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and then just go for it.

No, I never had any dreams. The process of art is a dream in itself. The artist just doesn't... you work out something. It's yours. You don't have to go to sleep to do that. You do that on the canvas.

I shy away from the word 'creation.' In the ordinary, social meaning of the word - well, it's very nice, but fundamentally, I don't believe in the creative function of the artist. He's a man like any other.

When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that found its first expression through reading. I really dislike the romantic notion of the artist.

I think with pictures; I'm a very lousy writer. If I write without pictures, I become this pathetic chick sitting somewhere trying to be interesting.

If you are a creative person, you try to create things that are an extension of yourself.

Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do.

I can obviously relate to a character who is an artist, because the creative process is a big part of my life.

I don't really know what inspires me to write the music I do, but usually, the music will set the tone for the lyrics.

I never really focus on writing for other people, to be honest. Every song I've ever written was for me to sing. Maybe if I'm writing for a rapper, but I'd still write it as though it was for myself and then sometimes I'm actually asked to do the part.

I'm not the same person as the character I do in my songs. She's crazy! The 'Daddy Song' was the first sketch I ever wrote, especially on the guitar and everything - and definitely the most offensive. And absurd.

To be honest, I don't think I'm an actor. I'm a creator - or try to be.

My favourite genre lies inside myself, and as I follow my favourite stories, characters and images, it sums up to a certain genre. So at times even I have to try to guess which genre a film will be after I've made it.

I've always considered myself a poet in everything that I do, whether it's photography or movie-making.

I consider myself first of all an artist. My work is about my creativity - why I create and not for whom.

Country's more than about what the music sounds like. It's what you're saying and who you are as a person.