“She wipes her forehead with her wrist She's just back from a double shift Esther's a carer doing nights Behind her on the kitchen wall is a black and white picture of swallows in flight Her eyes are sore her… — Kate Tempest Copy Share Image
When I began rapping, I only had one form at my disposal. All I had, all I needed was a rhyme verse; sixteen bar,… — Kate Tempest Copy Share Image
When you know a place, your feet have walked it so many times there's a comfort to it. — Kate Tempest Copy Share Image
In London, the most, the biggest thing we have is culture, you know what I mean? That's what we've done for the past 50,… — Kate Tempest Copy Share Image
Some things, it's very useful to begin without knowing fully where you're going. — Kate Tempest Copy Share Image
You don't know how to get yourself out of that deep water until you're in the deep water. — Kate Tempest Copy Share Image
The more you close the doors, the less free your ideas can come, and they come from up here and come through you. — Kate Tempest Copy Share Image
Actually in the moment in which the idea has life, when it's listened to read, engaged with, acted on stage, it gains another dimension,… — Kate Tempest Copy Share Image
“she must learn to forgive herself and move on 'cos what happens in love is beyond right or wrong;” — Kate Tempest Copy Share Image
It's actually a very liberating thing to have a creative community, which is something that we all kind of desperately search for and find… — Kate Tempest Copy Share Image
When your tongue can taste shadows and your friends are shedding tears, That's when you know that hell is empty 'cos all the devils… — Kate Tempest Copy Share Image
My point is is that if you are ever comfortable you're not growing and if, unless you are completely out of your depth, your… — Kate Tempest Copy Share Image
Your job is to facilitate and improve your capacity so that when an idea comes you can facilitate it. That's your job as a… — Kate Tempest Copy Share Image
The minute you finish a piece of writing it doesn't belong to you, you don't write it any more, it belongs to you, the… — Kate Tempest Copy Share Image
If you ever feel comfortable in what you're producing, you've lost. You're not alive, that's it, it's stagnant water. — Kate Tempest Copy Share Image
When you're a story teller, you work out everything. You work out who these people are, what's going to be happening. The environment in… — Kate Tempest Copy Share Image
