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I'm always working on new stuff.
I am only interested in celebrating music.
My guitar setup is inspired by Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Every single pair of trousers I own has a plectrum in it.
Who am I to sit here and say I'm going to change the face of music?
I studied at university for a term and a day, and then I dropped out.
People don't want to hear the same song 12 times in a row on an album.
I watch cartoons a lot. I'm a big 'Rick and Morty' and 'South Park' fan.
For me, creating music is just as relaxing as sitting down and doing nothing.
I find it really difficult to turn my head off. I find it difficult to zone out.
I've always found myself to be most free and creatively open when I'm on my own.
I like making sounds and putting it together, I'm not just a singer or a producer.
I grew up with parents who really encouraged me to listen to as much music as I could.
I just hope people enjoy 'Phase' as much as I've enjoyed making it. I hope it's a good reaction.
I listen to podcasts when I run because it means my mind still gets stimulated by something else.
I've always said that I would only ever release something that I would want to listen to as a fan.
I spent 19, 20 years of my life being terrified about what I looked like. I was a ginger white kid.
It's difficult sometimes to go and see a show and enjoy it and not go and see a show and critique it.
The reason I'm scared of flying is because I'm not in charge. Being so far out of control terrifies me.
My mission is to just keep creating music. If it helps people in some way, then I'm doing the right thing.
The only intention I've ever had creatively, as a musician, is to be as different from myself as possible.
My grandfather was a church organist and would sing in choirs and was a musical genius to a certain extent.
As a kid, I could just pick up melody and harmony instinctively, and that's why I can play lots of instruments.
I get inspired by the sounds that evoke an emotion from me. That's what I am drawn to; that's what turns me on.
The thing that was most constant when I was growing up was just complete support and adoration from my parents.
The most difficult thing for me as an artist, as a creator of music, is lyrics. But everything else, I just do it.
I feel the best way to respect my audience is to not give them what they expect from me... 'cause it's fun that way.
Genre hopping is something I intend to do, and I intend to do it forever and ever because I think genres are boring.
Festivals are the best because you can't control anything, and for a control freak like me, that's a wonderful experience.
People forget that, for example, Adele wasn't always the Adele we know. Sam Smith wasn't always the Sam Smith that we know.
Tech gives people more opportunities to be themselves in front of other people. Sometimes that's great; sometimes it's bad.
The music in my family has always been there; it's been quite an obvious trait that seems to have trickled down the bloodline.
I found a way to connect with lots of instruments rather than just fixating on one of them. I just loved making noise on anything.
Ever since I was a little kid, my ears and my hands would talk to each other very well, so I could pick up instruments quite easily.
Music has always been part of my family's life. My brother, sister, and I all have the same ability to pick up an instrument and play.
I want my music to sound good on whatever people are listening - laptop speakers, those crappy little white ones you get with your PC.
I had a passion and a soul in me that was screaming to be heard, and I had to let them out in as honest and challenging a way as I could.
With the BBC Sound list, it's just humbling even being put aside those other musicians - people like Alicia Kava, who I am a huge fan of.
My mum would play Stevie Wonder around the house, and I remember just loving the songs and feeling so blown away by how much was going on.
I've purposely made my music to be challenging and different. There's some electronics, R&B, blues, Motown, country, jazz and lots of soul.
I got to a point when I was 20 that I dropped out of university because I felt I didn't have any purpose, and I wanted to find a fire in me.
When I was younger and played acoustic guitar music, I got a lot of Sheeran comparisons, along with guys like Paolo Nutini and James Morrison.
The best music is the music which brings out something of you that you didn't know was there before, or you did know was there but had avoided.
If you can fool every single member of the audience into thinking you're confident and you deserve to be there, everyone will jump on your side.
Performing outside is always kind of strange. Usually, you can't hear something, whether it's your voice or instrument, but it's a fun challenge.
The 'Remnants' EP was the first time I got to really explore myself as a producer, and I got the insane idea of doing it on my own in my future career.
I don't think there's any such thing as perfection. But I'm a perfectionist. I don't believe in the idea of perfection, but I will strive to achieve it.
I find myself working ten steps ahead of where I actually am on my laptop or keyboard, but I know what the ten steps are. I just haven't got to them yet.
With every milestone that I've come across, there's always been a little note at the bottom that's said, 'Don't worry, there's another milestone coming up.'
I don't want to write the song that I wrote yesterday, and I don't want to write the song I'm going to write tomorrow; I only write the music I'm writing now.