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“I love Erykah Badu. Every time I listen to her music, I'm, like, laying out all the instruments in the song, like, how I would loop it.”
“It's like being in a trance, like I get this electric current through my fingertips. Sometimes I shake. People say I look like Hendrix when I'm about to rip a solo because I move my shoulders like he does and do the chewing.”
“I started getting RSI in my wrists and my elbow from playing really hard, so I started looping.”
“I reckon I'd be probably, like, in the gutter somewhere if I didn't have music.”
“I don't busk any more because it's gotten too dangerous.”
“I just have this real love and connection with what I'm doing when I play music.”
“I'm not a really super-political type of person, and that might change as I get older.”
“If you get the chance to be a Bourke Street busker, you actually have to do an audition in front of a council panel. You get a roster every week that has your busking shifts on it - I'm serious: it's an actual job.”
“I've got a lot of pedals and a lot of knobs that need to be switching around during my performance, so I've taught my toes how to do that.”
“I always play barefoot. I can't play with shoes on.”
“I've got to deal with some stuff in my mind that's pretty scary.”
“Pretty much everybody loves music. Like, there are those weird people that don't like music, and I don't really understand that at all, to be honest.”
“Music saved me from a really dark road.”
“You only have one thing in your mind, and that is your mind; once that's gone, your whole reality is distorted.”
“I've played music that's terrible in the past, and not everyone likes you, which is fine.”
“I take alone time when I can.”
“I learnt everything to do with music in my own time.”
“I chose busking because I didn't want to be working for someone else. I wanted to work as I am. I feel like you ultimately do have a choice if you have your vision. So, I had a vision forever that I was going to play music. And there was no stopping that.”
“I wrote 'Jungle' in my bedroom when I was having a manic time with a particular girl. Everyone thinks it's this really upbeat song, but it's not; it was just a really manic time, so I wrote a song about it.”
“I kind of just got right into playing music because I could kind of stop thinking when I was concentrating on playing the guitar.”