Aldous Harding

“I definitely have a stage persona. I don't walk around scowling at people too often.”

“I'm just focused on getting to the end of each show and feeling like we've done a good job when we walk off stage. And a perfect show isn't necessarily about making the audience feel good. I know I've done my job well if I've made people feel... interesting. I like to leave them a little stunned.”

“We all want the same thing, love and acceptance. That's pretty much it. And what I've learned is that unless I'm happy with my side of the nickel, it can change violently - quickly.”

“I like 'The Simpsons' like everybody else. But yeah - people think I'll always be super intense.”

“With some things, it's not that I like doing them; it's more that I like having done them. I like to look back and see that I've made a nice thing.”

“The first song that I wrote that I was proud of was probably 'Hunter' from the first record. But I listen that now and I don't know. I mean, it's got a good hook, but still. I'm proud of it. I'm as proud as I can be of all the ideas, but I think 'Party' showed a maturity that I don't think I had on 'Aldous Harding.'”

“I think about it as not so much 'I need to get it out of me,' it's not that my thoughts are poison, I just want to write good music.”

“I tend to overdo things.”

“I'm focused on my future. I'm ignoring my past, apart from the bits that I draw from to help me focus on my future.”

“I enjoy doing the thing that I find interesting really well.”

“There are very few things in the world that make me feel a feeling, really.”

“I really do feel like an unremarkable person trying really hard, openly, to do something interesting and to make something of value and pleasure.”

“If you want to do this, you've got to last. You've got to be well enough to carry your ideas. I'm not saying I've got great ideas, but if I do I need to be able to deliver them.”

“I'm actually hilarious.”

“I spend... too much time... in my own head.”

“I don't know a lot about art and music culture.”

“I think a bit of mystery is good, and I used to feel like an eccentric person pretending to be normal. But I am actually just a normal person seeming eccentric, by what I'm putting myself through.”

“Because I'm a nobody, surely it's an interesting thing or a nice thing to see a nobody or just a regular person do things that makes you question your taste and feel things.”

“I don't really remember a lot of my childhood.”

“When I discovered metaphor and what it meant, I got really excited. That was what really pushed me through into music.”