Kate Tempest

When I began rapping, I only had one form at my disposal. All I had, all I needed was a rhyme verse;…

— Kate Tempest

When you know a place, your feet have walked it so many times there's a comfort to it.

— Kate Tempest

In London, the most, the biggest thing we have is culture, you know what I mean? That's what we've done for the…

— Kate Tempest

Some things, it's very useful to begin without knowing fully where you're going.

— Kate Tempest

You don't know how to get yourself out of that deep water until you're in the deep water.

— Kate Tempest

The more you close the doors, the less free your ideas can come, and they come from up here and come through…

— Kate Tempest

Actually in the moment in which the idea has life, when it's listened to read, engaged with, acted on stage, it gains…

— Kate Tempest

“she must learn to forgive herself and move on 'cos what happens in love is beyond right or wrong;”

— Kate Tempest

It's actually a very liberating thing to have a creative community, which is something that we all kind of desperately search for…

— Kate Tempest

When your tongue can taste shadows and your friends are shedding tears, That's when you know that hell is empty 'cos all…

— Kate Tempest

My point is is that if you are ever comfortable you're not growing and if, unless you are completely out of your…

— Kate Tempest

Your job is to facilitate and improve your capacity so that when an idea comes you can facilitate it. That's your job…

— Kate Tempest

The minute you finish a piece of writing it doesn't belong to you, you don't write it any more, it belongs to…

— Kate Tempest

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

When you're a story teller, you work out everything. You work out who these people are, what's going to be happening. The…

— Kate Tempest

“Millions of characters, each with their own epic narratives singing it’s hard to be an angel until you’ve been a demon.”

— Kate Tempest

Allow yourself to be out of your depth at all times.

— Kate Tempest

Never expect what you write to be any good, 'cause it's the fear of writing badly that stops you from finding the…

— Kate Tempest

“She wipes her forehead with her wrist She's just back from a double shift Esther's a carer doing nights Behind her on…

— Kate Tempest

“Polish the silverware, dust off the telly screen, it's holy hour on Saturday evening, the new Dionysu is in his dressing room…

— Kate Tempest

There's enough brackets put on us already, we don't need to bracket our creativity anymore than we do.

— Kate Tempest

A story comes into your head fully formed, you know exactly the place, the setting, the people. All you've got to do…

— Kate Tempest

I live or die for hip-hop and it's a beautiful form but you're a writer first and foremost.

— Kate Tempest