Professor Green webchat – your questions answered on celebrity, dogs and urban life

Buy my autobiography, Lucky, which I wrote myself, and then tell me what you think! Peace.

Thank you for your kind comments. I'd like to work with Emeli again... I quite like Charli XCX. There's a "I don't give a fuck" about her, an attitude. I think also Bibi Bourelly. She wrote Bitch Better Have My Money for Rihanna - she has a lot of "I don't give a fuck" about her, proper.

It's all subjective - the fact that you don't like my music. Thank God your opinion of my music has no bearing over where I'm placed in the public psyche.

The fact that it felt like more of a spoof. That it was more of a mockery, like something you'd see in a spoof movie. I could quite imagine her in Scary Movie.

Nope. Eraser is gomme, though.

No. It's really easy to speak hypothetically, and say that I'd change loads of things - you could do it with life, not just career. But you have no idea what the knock on effect of those changes might be.

This sounds negative at first, but actually is quite positive. It's really that there's no such thing as permanence. Everything is temporary. The good to be taken from that is to not worry about the two things that don't actually exist that everyone spends time worrying about: the past and the future. Maybe we should just focus on being present. Without wanting to sound like something out of a self help book...

If I responded to everything written about me, I would have no time to do anything else. More frustrating than things being written, is people being fooled into believing that most of what's written is true.

No. Fuck off.

If I went with what my vocal coach told me to do, then yes - which would be plenty of hydration, lip bubbles and a gentle vocal warmup through the scales before any voice usage. And plenty of vocal rest. But the truth would look more like: performing without warming up, spending a lot of time in loud places talking too loudly, drinking more coffee than water, smoking fags, and consuming a lot of tequila.

Oof. I think pre-referendum it looked that way; I think post, with people being more aware of the repercussions of leaving Europe, and what just happened with the American election, I think maybe not so. I just don't think people are politicised in the way they used to be - I think it's possible to be political without being politicised.

I never have. We take from our own backgrounds - my inspiration came through growing up in Clapton, and everything after that. Thanks for the kind comments about the documentaries.

Someone like what? Someone who grew up in a council flat in Clapton, and it was extremely multicultural and there were loads of kinds of music everywhere? It was growing up, listening to all those kinds of music I was exposed to. And having friends who made music for years before I ever did.

Badgers are little fuckers. If it was a honey badger, I would definitely say the honey badger.

I imagine this relates to growing a crop of marijuana. My answer is no. I have never had a grow house, nor have I been in charge of one. Thanks!

My dog is a superstar in the park - one of the friendliest and most well behaved. There are labradors that are larger than him, golden retrievers that are larger than him. He just hasn't appeared in an Andrex advert. My choice to get an old-time bulldog wasn't to make people feel uncomfortable, though if he does make you feel uncomfortable, the smartest thing you should do should you ever run into him, is cross the road.

To be honest, I don't think I do have any coping mechanisms. Because of the documetnaries I've done, and how open I've been, I've been forced to have those feelings present a lot of the time. An effect of that which would probably be similar to the result of a lot of therapy, is that those thoughts don't have as much power over me emotionally any more. That said, the times when things do come up and it does upset me, I accept how I feel, because it is upsetting to lose your father - that's not something that ever changes.

My main goal above everything is really to not become part of the cycle. I've been really encouraged by my uncle who is self-made and grew up in a similar situation to me. He worked his way to being a foreman of his own construction firm, and is there for both his children. His father wasn't for him - he walked out and left him in a difficult situation. So for me, I would like to achieve a good family. To have children, and be a constant in their lives.

I'm legally not allowed to discuss my divorce settlement! I think it would be a bit crass to do so anyway. But thanks for the compliment on the jumper - it's Givenchy.

That depends on whether he twists his own ankle during the fight. Not going to tell you more about that.

Firstly I spend ages picking the puppy. Quite often when people walk into a room with a litter of dogs, they go for the dog that runs straight up to them - that isn't always the wisest choice, as that dog will probably run up to everyone. Spend a lot of time with them - it's time, attention, patience and consistency. Tolerance, too. I've got to replace a whole load of skirting thanks to my new pup. She's got a bad belly as well. Probably all good practice for when I do have children.

I make a blinding roast, but you're not invited. I don't tend to bring strangers back to my house. other than that, Blacklock in Soho is incredible but good luck getting a reservation, they're booked til February. Probably because they just won best roast in England. The Guinea Grill is pretty good. And the Fat Walrus if you're in south east London. But watch out for the pub dog - his name is Baloo and he will romance his way onto your dinner plate.

The dad or the son?? How do kids learn what's cool - it's their peers. I always thought I'd be a cool dad, but then you get older and you realise the difference between you and the younger generation. And I'm in an industry that keeps you young! Even I might be losing my cool a bit. It's more important to be a good dad than a cool dad.

I'm quite fair skinned - I don't fair very well in the sun. I don't like beaches that much, mostly because I have to constantly reapply suncream, which means sand gets stuck everywhere. So I'm going to say snowmen.

I don't have an internet gaming site! I wish I did - it's probably quite lucrative, especially when the odds are stacked in favour of the house.

I'd love to tour Europe again, and everywhere else. At the moment it's about building up momentum again. I've just released for the first time in two years.

There were many periods of my "rise to fame". It wasn't just a rise - there were peaks and troughs. My situation hasn't changed as much as someone who has left the area to go to an elite uni - that would be a culture shock. My advice I suppose having never been to a university - not to study, anyway - just crack on and work out what you want to focus on. That's not to say it's going to come without difficulty. I know all too often, I become a novelty because of how I speak, and people mock me. But it goes both ways - I might say someone posh speaks with a boiled sweet in their mouth.

It nearly brought me to tears, just watching it. And that's not just because I had a boozy birthday on Sunday. The story they told was incredible, and to do it with shadows... dance is such a beautiful form of expression. The thought that went into it, and the ability to make it seem natural, it's incredible - and it was incredible to see the reaction on the people's faces in the audience.

Biggie. He was the first rapper that I ever got into. I was into jungle first, especially in East London, and everyone would come round playing that in their stolen Metros. Then I was at Roller City, and they played One More Chance with Faith Evans... that was my first real time I started getting into hip-hop. He's the whole package: the honesty. All the artists I have an affinity towards are the ones who put themselves in their music, their honesty and willingness to be open. He was a clever fucker too. The fact that he never wrote his lyrics down... it just came out of him, his facility with words.

I think it was a hindrance when there wasn't music to balance out the bullshit. It didn't help me sell records - I was quite happy with where my profile was before I met Millie. I don't really have a relationship with the press - people think that I want that picture out there in the press, and I have influence over it. I don't. They just write whatever they want and it's often exaggerated or fabricated. I spend time talking about the good work I do, but that's not really for their client base, is it?

That's a generational thing. There's so much damage that needs to be undone. You've got third and fourth generational social housing where damage has been done - so much of what has already been done is passed onto the children. How do you sort the inequalities with opportunities, even basic things? I'm doing a doc on child poverty, and even basic things about nutrition, where people sleep, I've encountered four people from one family sleeping in one room. Where do you begin to undo that? I really don't know. There definitely needs to be a redistribution of wealth of some sort.

I suppose I see stuff on Twitter and Facebook and Instagram - but I don't go out of my way to search for stuff, and I don't let it influence the music I make. The initial part of making a song is selfish - you say what you feel like saying. I think especially there wasn't that influence when I started out, i think it would now detract from what I do. If you start second guessing people when you make music, it's not going to work. You can't please everybody, and I like polarising people.

- I trust my own gut. My belly.

- Probably late teens - it took me quite a while. Once I knew it wasn't a physical ailment I just got on with things, for the most part, tried to pretend it wasn't there. But the head and the gut are intrinsically linked.

- Suffering from anxiety is really different to having something you can be worried about. If something worries you, it worries you - that's the allowed anxiety. I had to think about lines. What I had to worry about was lyrics, so what I had to concentrate on was that - if I came up with that, there wouldn't be anxiety. But the other anxiety, the knot in your stomach for no apparent reason, is another thing entirely.

- I find with my anxiety that triggers can be anything. I can be having an ordinary day, preoccupied with what I'm doing, and someone asks me if I want a sugar in my coffee - that can trigger it, it can be big or small. Rituals, I'm quite OCD. In particular times of stress that gets worse and manifests as hypochondria - I like to tidy, and lay my clothes out. It's control, and it makes me less likely to worry about things are out of my control.

- A few years ago my answer would be: to be settled, comfortable, happy. And all the things you're sold to be "happy". Now, it's just being the best that I can. Navigating my way through it and learning as I go.

- A movie? The one thing is, I'd have to spend three hours in makeup having my tattoos covered, or be typecast. I remember hearing 50 Cent spending hours having his tattoos covered. They always seem like such a good idea at the time...

- I do dance! Caroline Flack was trying to teach me the samba the other night. Normally - no always - I'll be under the influence.