Personal Quote:

By the time I moved to New York, I had already been raised on eight years of Radio 1. The radio and music culture in England is not so racially segregated between rap, reggae, alternative or whatever. My dad [former band manager Laurence Ronson ] also listened to a lot of funk and soul around the house, so when I moved to New York I started listening to a lot of Def Jam and [ The Beatles ] music. ...