Tones and I

“No one could have ever prepared me for the whole world judging me and comparing me to other artists.”

“I've always sung in the shower and I watched a lot of 'Rage' when I was young.”

“There is no necessity in this world that requires you to have an absurd amount of money.”

“One day I was at the park with my family, all my cousins and stuff, in Frankston... We were all just singing a song and my aunty was like 'oh guys, she can actually hold a note.' I think that's the earliest memory of someone actually pointing me out as someone that has an ability to sing. I was probably like 7 years old.”

“There was a lot of times when I was busking there were a lot of people in your face, like 'More, more! Go again, again, again!'... People were so used to be able to swipe to see something different to entertain themselves that the patience had diminished.”

“Streaming services are very important.”

“People think you should be happy all the time but you can't.”

“I don't want to focus too much on trying to write a song for radio.”

“I worked in retail for a bit and then I busked for two years. As soon as I started, I thought, 'I'll do busking until I'm 50 because this is the best job in the world.'”

“When I was busking, when I was paying for petrol with silver coins or when I was sneaking into hostels so I could park my van up and sleep in it, I had the best time of my life.”

“Well, the first Australian tour I literally just took busking to the stage.”

“I want to play the Super Bowl halftime show in America.”

“I thought the world of live performance and busking was where I was going to thrive. I had no idea that digital streaming platforms and radio and that world would be for me, you know?”

“The pre-chorus always flows and the chorus is always a little bit harder for me because I put pressure on myself. I didn't know that there was a proper way to do these things, so I just write what sounds good to me in my ears and then I hope to God that someone else likes it too.”

“Thank you to Australia for letting me know that I'm OK just the way that I am.”

“The radio doesn't want to play you until you're No.1 on Shazam, and you can't get No.1 on Shazam without getting played.”

“Dance Monkey' showed me that I'm good enough.”

“I'm scared of being a one-hit wonder because my second single has set the bar too high.”

“People like me for who I am, I don't wanna change that, if anything I just wanna hone my craft and get better at it.”

“I never thought that I would have the No 1 song in the world.”