Aldous Harding

“I've always been, like a lot of people, driven by fear. Always focusing on the fire on the rope, as opposed to what the rope is coming from.”

“You know, we've had some pretty rough festival stages.”

“I think there's strength in seeing somebody who's not necessarily winning at life... to make something that makes people feel like they've won when they hear it.”

“Just like using an instrument, a song calls for different things.”

“I don't think about why I do what I do, or why I started doing what I do, because I'm so obsessed with doing it right now, and what it means to me right now.”

“You should see my stepdad's face when he's lifting something. It's the scariest thing I've ever seen! So you can't expect, just because I'm a potentially pretty person, that I won't allow myself to try out emotional states that might make me look ugly to some people.”

“I'm trying to know who I am and be honest about it.”

“Wales is a lot like New Zealand.”

“All I ever wanted to do was to do something interesting.”

“As a kid I remember being frightened all of the time, and kind of sad. I was certainly troubled. But a lot of people were, y'know? I don't really know how to measure my trouble against somebody else's.”

“I've got a bad rap for not being more charismatic between songs.”

“I am so much like my mother. When we're in a room together everybody always comments on how spooky it is. I would say I get most of the musicality from my mum - and my dad, but I think my dad is the poet, you know.”

“So, when I was eight or nine my mom's friend gave her a big purple bag full of cassettes and I found Seals and Crofts' 'Summer Breeze'... When I found it I stopped going through the bag because I was like, well, I'm not going to find anything better than this. I just thought it was the most beautiful thing I'd ever heard.”

“I'm one of those people who's always changing. There's nothing wrong with it but it means I am a hard person to hold onto, I guess.”

“I don't have necessarily good taste. I have some really good taste and I have some really awful taste. I don't see the difference, because when you use them together they can work.”