Top 35 Tinie Tempah Quotes

If people are not listening to you as individuals, it’s always good to get together and make a stand for something.

I’ve seen how much effort has to go into a tour, the performance and also how to look after yourself, not just physically, but mentally too.

Fashion Week is surprisingly very short. At least the actual runway shows are.

At the end of the day, you sign a record deal and you understand where it could go if you had the right song.

I really want to work with Adele, I think she’s amazing. Lykke Li as well. I love them both. I’d also like to work with The Script. I met them in Australia and we just got on like a house on fire.

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.

I like to think I don’t make music for ignorant people.

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

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

A lot of young people have all these aspirations but many of them don’t believe they’re possible.

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

I grew up in an eclectic house where people were listening to all types of different music. I also think being educated, eloquent and knowing how to talk for yourself in the industry makes you go a long way.

Being able to travel the world is pretty cool. There are places that I’ve always wanted to go to but being able to go there as somebody who’s a musician and is recognised as one is cool.

I’m a big fan of Paco Rabanne’s 1 Million.

I’m into everything. My iPod is very eclectic – if you kept it on shuffle, you’d be amazed. For example, I was forced to grow up on Dolly Parton. My mum was obsessed by her. She bought all this memorabilia for the front room. It’s ridiculous.

I’m merely a fan of fashion from high end to streetwear, from Nike to Comme des Garcons.

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!

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.

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.

I pray as much as possible.

Music has no race. It appeals to everybody.

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 feel like I’m indirectly showing people, not that there’s another way, but just that if you really have a dream, you should try and give it a go.

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

There’s this other girl called Lykke Li from Sweden – I really want to collaborate with her, that’d be great. Obviously Kanye West as well, and Drake would be pretty amazing.

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.

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.

Nigeria is like everywhere, really: there are some beautiful places that have been invested in and others that haven’t been.

I lived in Peckham for the first 12 years of my life and then my mum and dad decided they really didn’t want to bring up their children there. So they saved up money and bought a house in Plumstead, semi-detached, three bedrooms.

I met Ellie Goulding at the BRITs. She’s lovely. I’ve got a lot of time for her. I gave her congratulations and whatnot and she let me hold her BRIT. That was amazing – once I’d touched one for the first time, I said ‘This cannot be the last time I touch a BRIT.’

When I was about 14 I remember thinking when it came to proposing to my future girlfriend, I’d make a CD with all her favourite songs and a message that said, ‘Will you marry me?’ Shows you what a romantic I was. No one listens to CDs any more. It’s all about iTunes.

Grime is a particular style of music. You’ve got electro, funk and garage; grime is its darker side. It’s constantly evolving.

I think when you come to Australia you immediately get the sense of fitness and taking care of yourself and being healthy, and it really shows.

Every generation that comes from this family has to do better than the last.

I was well brought up, my parents are still together. I lived in a council estate, but I don’t anymore; I saw my parents buy a nice house and move me to a nice area.