Jack Garratt

“I wish I was a prolific writing wondrous boy genius - I wish I was Stevie Wonder - but I wasn't. I was me. I wrote terrible songs about girls I was head-over-heels about. As soon as a pretty girl looks at me, that's it - I'm in love, and I should probably write a song about it!”

“I found a way to connect with lots of instruments rather than just fixating on one of them. I just loved making noise on anything.”

“I don't listen to much music on the go because I tend either to be writing my own music or wanting a break from the music around me.”

“I spent 19, 20 years of my life being terrified about what I looked like. I was a ginger white kid.”

“The best music is the music which brings out something of you that you didn't know was there before, or you did know was there but had avoided.”

“I would sing around the house, and I would always play on things just because instruments were always there, but I didn't show any genius as a child. I wasn't a prodigy or anything like that.”

“Festivals are the best because you can't control anything, and for a control freak like me, that's a wonderful experience.”

“I remember listening to 'Songs In The Key Of Life' as a kid. Stevie Wonder has an ability to manipulate pop into something globally obtainable. Anyone can listen and enjoy it because there's something for everyone. That woke me up to the possibilities of pop music.”

“I hope that I am, in a way, helping and touching other people with my music, and being a musician and having this as a job gives me a sense of purpose beyond my own selfish needs.”

“I believe that musical instruments are created because they are supposed to be played. There's not an instrument that's been designed to not be playable - it kind of defeats the point.”

“There is a pressure, but my job essentially is not to listen to that pressure, not to buckle underneath that pressure, but instead to continue making music in the way that I have been making it.”

“I remember, from aged six to nine, I was loud and abrasive and loved making noise and loved playing instruments and doing all those things. When I was about ten, I realised I could get attention by doing that, so when I was eleven, I started writing songs.”

“When I perform live, I'm doing a lot, but I kind of black out. I don't think about it too much.”

“Tech gives people more opportunities to be themselves in front of other people. Sometimes that's great; sometimes it's bad.”

“I'm just here to do the best that I can do with the music that I make, and I'm not making it for any other reason than I feel like I have to. These ideas have to be created because they're in me, and if I leave them in my head, I'll go crazy.”

“The only intention I've ever had creatively, as a musician, is to be as different from myself as possible.”

“Winning the BBC Music Sound Of 2016 poll has left me feeling pretty stunned at the end of one of the most emotionally and physically intense years of my life.”

“I'm ultimately a perfectionist who doesn't believe in perfection.”

“I've always said that I would only ever release something that I would want to listen to as a fan.”

“I enjoy the music I make because I have to - if I didn't, I wouldn't want to make it, and I wouldn't want it to be heard by other people.”