A biography for Ben Howardhasn’t been written yet.
“I was never in music to make it to award shows.”
“Just to get asked to a Ibiza Rocks is a big thing.”
“I met Xavier Rudd at a surf festival in England.”
“I don't really like encouraging people to go on the Internet too much, we're constantly distracted with the Internet and computers.”
“Coming from the U.K., you realize how quiet England is, and as soon as you get to America, it's really big and brash and loud out here, and South by Southwest was the epitome of that.”
“A lot of the bars are really nice to me now because they've heard me on the radio.”
“We adapt very quickly to things, don't we?”
“With music you spend so much time standing on stage in front of an audience you get a false sense of your own importance. It's worth keeping that in check.”
“I'm not prolific, I go over stuff and it goes for me and sometimes against me. I'm annoyed that I don't do enough stuff off-the-cuff. It's a difficult thing to do something quickly and stand behind it.”
“I've been to some kind of weird places in America. I've been to Idaho.”
“For me, recording was a lot about honing my guitar skills and honing my singing.”
“It's a privilege to be from England and be able to come over to America and have people listening to music and really enjoying it.”
“I live in a small town so I get recognised a lot which is weird.”
“I took the sing from your song. I made a bed where you don't belong.”
“I guess I'm the sort who, if I find something comfortable, tends to push against it.”
“I just write about myself all the time, which is a funny one, because I don't really like sharing much stuff with other people, apart from music.”
“So many people have told me that it's quite different playing out in the States, and obviously, as a musician, touring in the States is kind of the Holy Grail.”
“If you had told me many years ago that I'd have been headlining Longitude, or festivals like it, I would have thought it was unimaginable.”
“When you first sit down to write songs, you have to be selfish.”
“It's so bizarre, being in the rolling water, but I like how insignificant it makes me feel, that's a good head space to be in.”