Rex Orange County

Musician

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I think there's no limit to ambition, and if you want something, you can make anything happen, so go for it.

I've never been uncomfortable sharing stuff. It's almost the opposite. I'll say the most blunt, brutally honest thing about any situation.

I met a lot of label people at the start of doing this music thing, and I just realised soon that it wasn't much about music but more so about their paycheck at the end of the day.

I'm afraid of peacocks.

I'm usually just writing lyrics alone in my room, but I'm happy to be producing and writing chords anywhere.

I've been able to do a lot of cool things. That's always the dream for any artist.

Anyone can put anything out at any point and make anything by themselves.

I want nice songs. I don't want to worry about where I have to place songs on a playlist. I'm looking to make genuine, great songs and put them together into albums.

I'm not very good at a lot of things that aren't music. This is the only thing that I love doing, so, like, why wouldn't I make this my whole life?

School did stress me out, like it does for a lot of young people. I didn't like having to do work that I didn't care about.

A lot of music influences me in other ways than this, but I've always taken a lot of influence from Stevie Wonder, Frank Ocean, and Jeff Rosenstock for the Rex music. They were also the first three artists that released albums where I enjoyed every song.

Alex Tumay is a recording engineer who works a lot with Young Thug and a load of other rappers, like Quavo. I'm just a fan of his work.

I grew up in a small village on the border of Hampshire and Surrey. When people ask, I tend to say that I'm from Haslemere.

The first Nardwuar video I watched was, funnily enough, the first Odd Future one.

I feel like collaborating is something I need to try more of.

I wear my musical heart on my sleeve and show all my influences off. I'm happy for someone to point out that my song sounds like someone else's.

I'm not actually as emotional as everybody thinks. The songs are super personal, but that's just one side of me, and I guess people just assume I'm some troubled guy who's constantly sad.

I'm sure there's some awful video of me singing when I was, like, 13 or 15 at my old school that my dad didn't take down off YouTube.

I realized that you can achieve so much at the front of a stage, releasing the music yourself and being something more selfish than just the drummer.

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