Ruel

“Wearing flares for the first time, I felt like a new man.”

“To me, songwriting is exaggerating to an extent.”

“I'm just around good people and they're my family. I won't be getting too big for my boots!”

“I mean every song comes from an experience to an extent.”

“When I see other people doing amazing things... I just fall in love with that.”

“I have grown a lot since 'Ready.' I guess my ability to write has gotten better.”

“I'm an old soul.”

“I think it's weird - I've had a weird experience growing up for sure.”

“I want to write, and... yeah, just the normal things a musician should do.”

“I'm always like: 'Ahh I wish I could change this bit or that bit,' always wanting to make small corrections and adjustments.”

“My confidence has been growing, and I've been really letting my ideas come out.”

“I've learnt to love super-weird sounds.”

“I'm a huge fan of Tyler, the Creator, and how he came to be and how he proper created an empire with Odd Future, and then just went up from there.”

“My dad's a huge music nerd and he put me onto a lot of music when I was very young, like Stevie Wonder, Bill Withers, Amy Winehouse, Aretha Franklin... And I just fell in love with that stuff really.”

“As a kid, when you think of being a singer travelling around the world, you think of just the great things. Getting money, living in mansions, playing to fans. When I was really young, that's all I thought it was.”

“Coming into the industry, I just want to try it my own way.”

“I think I'll always write. Performing? I probably won't be touring for the rest of my life. I think that I might have a limit to that maybe, in my 30s.”

“When I'm songwriting, I like to expand the biggest emotion.”

“Playing for three or four people in a boardroom, standing a foot away from them with a guitar, and singing three songs with them just looking at you and nodding their heads up and down - that's really strange and really uncomfortable.”

“Hey Soul Sister' hits so hard, it was my jam as a seven year old.”