A biography for Johnny Flynnhasn’t been written yet.
“Loads of verses don't make it into the finished song.”
“I'm not that politically educated.”
“I think Bob Odenkirk is phenomenal.”
“I first came across Langhorne Slim when I saw him play live, and he's an incredibly infectious performer. The way he works the crowd is mind-blowing. You can listen to his music without really listening to his lyrics, but it pays off if you do.”
“The moment you have children, it's like your heart gets out of your body, puts on clothes, and walks away.”
“Our job as actors is to invent the things that bridge ourselves with the characters, so you have to build something if it's not there - you try and learn what makes people behave in a certain way.”
“I like really bad puns - proper, red-top, nasty puns - I find them funny.”
“All the adults in my family were actors, so there wasn't much else in terms of role models. I fell in love with that world, being backstage at the theatre.”
“Weirdly, my dad didn't want me to become an actor, he was always quite resistant to it. He told me as much many times. That just made it more attractive to me.”
“I'm a huge David Hockney fan.”
“Not listening is the reason for so many misunderstandings and conflicts.”
“I like getting older. I always looked younger than I was, and I found that people wouldn't give me the room to speak. The older I get, it's like, 'Oh, I'm still talking, and they're still listening.'”
“In my mind, there's usually a fairly definitive kind of narrative when I write. But I don't want to enforce that on other people. I think that's why I like using metaphor so much.”
“My only incentive is to write music that changes me, where the process of making it is a discovery and is true in some way, at that moment.”
“When I first moved to London, there was talk of a folk revival, with annoying names like nu-folk that made me feel slightly ill.”
“It's interesting to marry American musical traditions with the subtlety of English-style storytelling and folk singer-songwriters like Martin Carthy and Bert Jansch - they're two heritages that are distinct but also cross over on so many levels.”
“It's great to be able to write songs and draw on life, to write truthfully, and to be able to do that, it's good to be exploring other stuff as well.”
“The truth is there's always a hum of people playing folk music in cities.”
“I like the idea of letting the music do its own work and the stories being more expressionful - if that's a word - in people's imagination. I've just got a thing about people and songs telling you how you should feel.”
“What's quite nice about this whole folk movement is that it's born out of genuine friendship. And nobody's infringing on anybody's space.”