2- What do you remember when the album debuted to a number one in the charts in UK?

You know what, you spend many hours and many hours in studios and trying out new songwriters and fighting against record labels and fighting against managers to try and get what you want, and that’s what I did do through this first album. In the previous question I answered how much it meant to me, and to go from that, a young naïve boy’s mind to no. 1 in the country you grew up feels very special. From working gigs around Leeds every night, and I’ve never ever pulled a gig, I’venever pulled a gig, that’s how committed I am to it. To work that hard and continue and continue and continue and then finally one day you get that proper kind of congratulation. You know, people say well done at the end of gigs or when they hear new music but to have a big population in your own country turn aroundand say you deserve this was very special. I’ll never forget that even if other albums go to no. 1, that was my debut album that was my tribute.

3- Can you describe something about the incredible song and video"Love me again"? What do you think about the success of the song worldwide?

I keep talking about me not caring what the industry standard is or me not caring about what the new wave of music is, or that everyone is putting an 808 kick in this song so everyone else has got to do that. I make music because I want to, I make art because I want to, I make videos because I want to and I don’t care whatthe genre is, or what they’re labeled as. That was love me again, whether it was araging 90s house piano or a drum break or a brass arrangement that was taken from a lot of the influence I got from the 60s. It all mashed together with a big popline. In terms of the video, I wanted to show my roots a little bit and I co-directed it, I wrote the script and it was a vision that came into mind with no budgets or anything like that. I worked with an incredible director, Vaughn Arnell, who made those budgets go away and made my mind become real and we got something really special. There was a moment when they turned around and said we’ve got to do something international. We’d already recorded the video and they said we had to do another international cut of the video, which was just in a white room. Still to this day I still look at the figures and go ‘yeah, that’s 170 million compared to 10 million views there’.

5- What do you think about the beginning in London with your friends of Rudimental and the success right now for both?

A mess, very drunken! I came out of hospital from having a benign brain tumor, with a song we’d recorded in a crap studio in east London, being played all over radios around Europe and the UK, and further a field a as well like Australia. That’sa very surreal moment to go from one extreme to the other, it was a very special time and got me out of that. In terms of Not Giving In, it was a song me and Piers wrote in his bedroom about a very close friend of ours who kept trying to top himself, and wanted to give him a bit of hope. That’s still a very special song to me, Not Giving In. It was a pleasure to do that and it was a pleasure to tour around the country doing disgusting clubs and PA sets at 4am, through to doing 60,000 capacity festivals, especially going on to the success we had and continuing that with my own stuff.

6- Can you describe some words for the beautiful songs and the inspired videos "Feel the love" and "Not givin in" with them?

I’ve just spoken about the lyrics so ill move on to the video. When I do collaborations I want to let other artists breathe, I have fun in my own music whenit comes to videos and things like that, I spoke about love me again and the freedom I had in that video. So feel the love was just a treatment that I got given and I didn’t want to have too much involvement because I wanted the Rudimentalguys to get what they wanted. I saw that video and thought do you know what that’s genius, because it was real, it was in Philadelphia and about a group of kids who just had their horses, it was a gang that just rode around on horses. That’s what they did and they were gifted these horses to look after, to learn to care for people, that’s amazing. The second story was another true story that Josh Cole directed. Both stunning videos and a pleasure to be a part of.

8- What are your innfluences right now?

I’ve come on a little bit in time. Again I don’t care what the genre is, I don’t care what category people put me in, I’m still putting Tarantino guitars in with orchestral arrangements, but now I’m putting Nile Rodgers style guitars in there with maybe modern 4/4 things. I’ve learnt bits from Calvin Harris from working with him, I’ve still got the Rudimental things in there, I’ve still got what worked well about Love Me Again on the last album. Now I feel like the next album is just going to be a progression in sound of where I was, a little cleaner but still dirty. In terms of influences, everything. My whole musical library, which is Soul, Hip-hop, Dance, 90s, Funk, Disco, Pop now as it is, House music and the list goes on. I’m inspired by anything that inspires me as an artist, that I go ‘Wow that’s genius’, and it doesn’t matter what genre that is from.

9- What music from UK do you like and recommend?

I think Black Butter Records. Coming from the rudimental camp, they’re the guys that have pushed Rudimental through and they’ve got a great group of acts if you are into house music more than anything. I think Rudimental are the only Drum & Bass act that they look after. There you have the likes of Clean Bandit, Gorgon City, Woz, Kidnap Kid, Jess Glynne, all incredible artists that are coming through. Ed Sheeran has done very well recently. We’re still to see a return of a few legends in the UK music scene like Florence and The Machine, Mumford & Sons, Adele, Emeli Sande. But I’m sure they’re all going to return and inspire every musician in the country with something new and breakthrough like they did the last time.

10- Do you listen Latin music?

If I’m out in the car or in a shop and I hear something that is Latin and inspiring because it’s got a great feel to it, or a great melody, or a great hook, then I’d buy that music straight away. But I need to look into that area more I think.

11- Maybe in the 2015... you have a new album? Are you working on new music?

I am working on new music, it is exciting. I feel like I’m getting rid of the blemishes from the last album and only taking the good bits forward. Making some singles, making some music that is different to what it was before, in the way that Tribute was different. It’s weird I can’t explain it, I feel confident with what I am doing, I feel like I’m in a playing field where I still feel like I don’t care what everyone else is doing and I’m just enjoying it.

12- This is a funny question, what do you have in your backpack (it means Moochila here).

I carry a camera bag around everywhere. I think it is important to document it, mylife, to be able to show my kids (when I eventually settle down!) what I’ve done. One way to be able to do it is with the cameras I carry around with me. So I have a camera backpack that has my laptop in it and so many sketchbooks and so many lyrics sheets. The last thing you want on plane journey is to not have that when you have an idea.