Aldous Harding

“In my mind, I was never going to have the things I wanted if I played music for a living, unless I became a rock star.”

“It's not a secret that I'm, like, 12 different people rolled into one. Like a lot of people are.”

“My music's doing things, out there in the world, and that's a very positive feeling, you know? I haven't had a job I've been this good at or this excited about since I was a dog groomer!”

“That's what I look for in music anyway: I want someone to confuse me to the point where I look inwards rather than at what they're doing.”

“We've played quite a few festivals now. We can take care of it, no matter where we are.”

“I think people are particularly interested to see who the real me is, but... different stories call for different approaches and you change based on the experience you want that person to have.”

“When it comes to a specific sound, I don't feel like there's something I need to worry about. I'd much rather do something creative and credible. Like, 'Who am I? What am I trying to say? What do I stand for?' I stand for all of it, because I feel all of it, like everybody.”

“I like reading things where someone's looked at what I do with some honesty, and maybe been challenged by it, and they have something to say that shows they've thought about it, even if they don't necessarily like it.”

“When you're young and starting out, a lot of artists think they know exactly who they are. There are others who come out in someone else's skin. They learn to take it off bit-by-bit and work out the core of what they're trying to say.”

“I knew what I liked, but I was never really obsessed with filling my life with music.”

“I can be anything.”

“The 'Aldous Harding' record isn't easily placed because it wasn't trying to sound like anything. It was quite organic.”

“My family used to put on a small folk festival.”

“I'm So Sorry' is probably one of my favorite songs that I've written... I wrote it very quickly and confidently. And then I didn't question it.”

“My head is full of songs I'm writing now, and things I am thinking now. I'm not very good at drawing on things that have happened, things I think might happen, or things I want to happen. I'm very much in right now.”

“That was the biggest compliment that I can receive - making somebody wonder whether they have the problem, rather than what my problem is.”

“Probably when I was about 16 or 17 I started writing. I wouldn't call it poetry, even though I've referred to it as poetry a couple times. But I don't think that's right. It was more scribblings and stream of consciousness.”

“If someone says to me that 'Horizon' is an anti-feminist anthem, I have to tell them, 'No, that's not right.' But I'm not interested in unpicking my music for people. Everybody has different reference points.”

“I had a little radio next to the bed and I'd just listen to the top 10 - I mean, it was crap but I was young - and I would get up in the dark with the moon coming in through the window and I would just dance in my pajamas in the dark to the top 10. I didn't have a CD player... so it was kind of all I had, you know?”

“I'm not much of a fan-girl.”