Rex Orange County

“Anyone can put anything out at any point and make anything by themselves.”

“I'm not very good at a lot of things that aren't music. This is the only thing that I love doing, so, like, why wouldn't I make this my whole life?”

“I realized that you can achieve so much at the front of a stage, releasing the music yourself and being something more selfish than just the drummer.”

“I feel like collaborating is something I need to try more of.”

“People have cried at a couple of shows. To think that someone could do that for me... Jesus Christ. That's a crazy sign.”

“'Apricot Princess' is like an inside album. You can listen to the album and feel all of those emotions within one night.”

“I won't be the kind of artist speaking in riddles all the time - it will be lyrics that make sense the moment I say them.”

“A lot of music influences me in other ways than this, but I've always taken a lot of influence from Stevie Wonder, Frank Ocean, and Jeff Rosenstock for the Rex music. They were also the first three artists that released albums where I enjoyed every song.”

“I want to make myself better and get working with some of my biggest influences and make the best music I can.”

“School did stress me out, like it does for a lot of young people. I didn't like having to do work that I didn't care about.”

“The first person on the BBC that played me was Huw Stephens. I was sat around my laptop with my girlfriend and my family, and it was super-exciting. It felt weird, and it sounded weirder, but it was great.”

“I find myself without Internet a fair bit in the house I live in in Streatham.”

“I don't think I'd call myself a rapper.”

“The first Nardwuar video I watched was, funnily enough, the first Odd Future one.”

“I'm afraid of peacocks.”

“Some people can work on the road, and that's incredibly impressive... maybe I'm not working myself hard enough.”

“I took piano lessons and I wanted to play drums when I was six. Luckily enough, my parents let me have a drum kit in my room - which is kind of crazy.”

“As long as you're being yourself and putting out what you want to put out, it'll be the best thing you could do.”

“I've never been uncomfortable sharing stuff. It's almost the opposite. I'll say the most blunt, brutally honest thing about any situation.”