A biography for Jamie Hincehasn’t been written yet.
“When I like something, I wear it into the ground, then really regret it.”
“After spending so much time in America, I started travelling with 'In Defence of English Cooking' by George Orwell. It's archaic and old-fashioned in its Englishness and reminds me of home.”
“I admire a lot of photographers, but I feel very disconnected from them at the same time. I don't feel I employ any technique like these people in my work. I guess if there's any influence from any of these photographers, it's this: They were concerned only with beauty. Not with 'cool.' I hope I'm doing the same.”
“I try not to be too realistic. It's better to be over-positive.”
“There are a lot of things about Russian culture, art, music, photography and literature that I'm love with.”
“Rock music was the death of jazz in a way. I know there's a bunch of people who say jazz isn't dead, but I mean, rock 'n roll, you play three chords to 20,000 people; jazz, you play 20,000 chords to three people.”
“Generally, my life is absolute chaos, but when I'm writing songs, it's very thought out and regimented.”
“I've carved a different path which is not that affected by what happens in the bad side of politics. I've always surrounded myself with music and art and love and all those things - pleasures that are sort of immune from all that.”
“I'm a guitar player. I've carved out my own style of guitar music, so I don't look for inspiration with playing guitar.”
“Privacy has become the most precious thing. Things have got more cryptic in my writing.”
“I don't feel like the album format is sacred anymore, and things have got to change. I don't listen to music in terms of albums anymore. I've got a short attention span.”
“I've got no problem being on my own. I like the way my imagination works.”
“Being in a band is not about reality - it's a bit of a fantasy. I can't go on stage as my ordinary self and just play - I've got to become my 'superhuman self.'”
“When I was a kid growing up, I lived in a little rural village called Woolton Hill, and the nearest town was Newbury. No bands played anywhere near us, so as much as I wanted to be on the grid and in the loop, I never was.”
“I love all board games, actually, apart from backgammon. I can never remember the rules.”
“It's a beautiful thing how happy you can be with a few friends, some beaten up guitars, a fire, and a couple of fields.”
“Sometimes not playing music for a day is much more beneficial than playing every day for ten hours.”
“One of the things I discovered about myself is I'm just really positive.”
“Never wear a hat and sunglasses at the same time, because it looks like you're wearing a disguise.”
“I squatted for most of my adult life. I'm not condoning squatting; it was just the only way I could do what I wanted to do. I didn't have, you know, a trust fund or parents that could help out.”