Musician

The only intention I've ever had creatively, as a musician, is to be as different from myself as possible.

I don't listen to much music on the go because I tend either to be writing my own music or wanting a break from the music around me.

I don't listen to much music on the go because I tend either to be writing my own music or wanting a break from the music around me.

Genre hopping is something I intend to do, and I intend to do it forever and ever because I think genres are boring.

The most difficult thing for me as an artist, as a creator of music, is lyrics. But everything else, I just do it.

I find it really difficult to turn my head off. I find it difficult to zone out.

Who am I to sit here and say I'm going to change the face of music?

I've always found myself to be most free and creatively open when I'm on my own.

There's a stigma attached to 'pop music,' like it's a taboo word. It used to make my skin crawl when people said it, and I'd say, 'I'm not a pop star! I want to be a respected musician!' But I think people have changed the way they think about it.

The best music is the music which brings out something of you that you didn't know was there before, or you did know was there but had avoided.

I had a passion and a soul in me that was screaming to be heard, and I had to let them out in as honest and challenging a way as I could.

People don't want to hear the same song 12 times in a row on an album.

It's difficult sometimes to go and see a show and enjoy it and not go and see a show and critique it.

Tech gives people more opportunities to be themselves in front of other people. Sometimes that's great; sometimes it's bad.

I studied at university for a term and a day, and then I dropped out.

I don't want to write the song that I wrote yesterday, and I don't want to write the song I'm going to write tomorrow; I only write the music I'm writing now.

I remember, from aged six to nine, I was loud and abrasive and loved making noise and loved playing instruments and doing all those things. When I was about ten, I realised I could get attention by doing that, so when I was eleven, I started writing songs.

I listen to podcasts when I run because it means my mind still gets stimulated by something else.

I was put through piano lessons when I was a kid. I say 'put through' because it was fun and I loved it, and it's been beneficial now, but it was difficult because, although I can read music, I much prefer just playing and improvising and at least finding my own way to play an instrument.

I've been naturally quick at learning things, and I learn by doing things, so if I sit beside someone who is actively doing something, I look at how they do it and absorb the way in which they do something and find my own comfortable way of reimagining that, or using certain techniques in my own way.