There always seems to be an element of faith in my writing.
Drama school taught me not to be precious.
To see people laughing or crying or listening, then being inspired to do their own thing? I can't think of anything better than that.
Don't sit there and complain. Rub your hands together and figure out what to do.
I'm very rational, so sometimes I need the facts, and if I don't have the facts, then I get huffy, and I move on.
I have to go to sleep with music.
I'm a Louis Theroux addict.
'Chewing Gum' is kind of like the world I wish I grew up in. There wasn't really a sense of community growing up.
I don't know what it would have been like to grow up with a man in the house.
It was only when I went to sixth-form college that I encountered boys.
So many of my memories revolve around TV.
I was very unhappy at one point and dealt with my unhappiness by hitting people.
Inequality starts in the womb.
I love Issa Rae. I adore her.
'Moesha' is very strong in my brain. The black women on 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' are very strong in my brain.
The idea of wanting to do something that's completely natural and then having to repress it is something that I find fascinating.
'Chewing Gum' ages me 15 years every time I do it - it's insane.
I think you just have to do you, whatever that is, and not feel like you have to be a certain way for other people to like you.
I don't write with this thing in the back of my head about carrying the weight of young black women on my shoulders.
I do like making people feel uncomfortable - it's separating the wheat from the chaff.
I am really weird.
You have to be true to your instinctive way of writing. You have to find your identity.
I love Jeremy Corbyn, definitely.
