Ashley Walters Quotes

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Ashley Walters

Profession : Musician

Birth : June 30, 1982

It would be beautiful to be able to walk up and down Peckham still, because I love it; it's where I grew up. But it just doesn't work. There are a lot of people who love you but there's jealousy too.

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I was stabbed in the neck when I was 15.

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Growing up without a father has made fatherhood harder for me.

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When it comes to friends, as in people to relax with, that's my wife and my kids.

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Using a gun is a coward's way to hurt someone.

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In my opinion, gentrification can sometimes affect what's happening on the ends. You're placing people in different places, moving them around, and you're taking them out of their comfort zone and into places they're not used to being in.

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I had an inkling that I was going to prison before I actually did, because I'd witnessed my father and my elders going through it. It seemed like that's the way that you got respect, which is a sad thing.

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Music for me, it's pretty annoying, because I've never had a successful solo career and it bugs me.

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My whole journey has been televised: the negative and the positive.

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I would love to have a chat with Michael Jackson. For the sole purpose of seeing if he has a deep voice or not. A lot of people say he actually had a deep baritone, but then on TV he always had the high pitched squeaky voice. I would love to spend some time with him.

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My dad spent most of my childhood behind bars. He went to jail 17 or 18 times. It was only when he was diagnosed with cancer in 2004 that we started to have a relationship.

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I grew up on an estate in Peckham.

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I remember at a very early age ringing up record labels I found in the Yellow Pages, and asking them for a record deal.

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My stepfather's nickname for me was Squarehead.

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My mother was - and is - a very strong woman; very strict. She was a serious mum; a feared parent.

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I went to a branch of the City of Westminster College in Maida Vale to do drama, sociology and English literature. I stayed for three or four months.

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Selling out is a myth. Bill Gates isn't selling out, is he? Richard Branson isn't selling out. Why can't black people make money?

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When I was in So Solid Crew, people were always asking if we were associated with the rise in gun crime.

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After one brandy, I'm already slurring. I'm quite a lightweight.

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When I was released from prison, I didn't want to leave my house for the first three months.

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