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“Chromatics' 'Kill For Love' has probably been the record I've listened to the most.”
“I really love that: bringing people together and feeling the love.”
“For me, I can sort of sit there and write something down, but I can't develop it. Because to do that, I have to sit on my own and sing. I have to be really alone to do that.”
“At a festival like Coachella, you're not necessarily playing for your fans. You're playing to some, but there is also a lot of people that have maybe heard one of your songs, but aren't quite fans yet, so you feel like you have something to prove.”
“I lived with my auntie and my cousin when I was growing up, and they always wore black, and I thought it was quite chic. It wasn't a goth or a social group sort of thing.”
“When you sign over your music to the BBC or Channel 4, you are signing it over, and they either use it, or they don't.”
“The lyrics - everything I sing, I've written.”
“Mainstream pop is a bit more introspective and emotional now, like how Adele's 'Someone Like You' is everyone's favorite song, and it's so heartbreaking.”
“My friends call me an owl. Apparently, it's a combination of being wise and having big eyes.”
“I taught myself how to use a multi-track tape recorder, which was the first time I recorded myself.”
“My guitar sound pretty much came from discovering there was reverb on my little practice amp and really loving the mood it created.”
“Aaliyah has been an artist I've grown up with, like an older sister.”
“You can't really sit and start singing into a laptop at an airport. Well, you could, but you'd have a lot of sound in the background.”
“I'm proud of having a girlfriend; it just doesn't have anything to do with my music.”
“I had this all-American cheerleader girl, in Georgia or somewhere, coming up to me and asking for guest list at a show. I never thought our music would reach out to such a broad variety of people like that.”
“When I think about myself as a teenager going to festivals, you look to the main stage as the main entertainment of the night.”
“'Angels' is about being in love.”
“Always treat people the way you would like to be treated. My mum told me that, and it often comes into my mind.”
“I'm happy - despite things that might have happened in my life.”
“I started out writings songs for what I thought was going to be a maximum of five people down our local pub.”