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Every time I do an interview, it's like serious therapy. But real therapy isn't something that I'd ever have. I feel fortunate that mentally everything is functioning well.
James Blunt / Singer-Songwriter
Fortunate
Interviews
Real
Serious
Therapy
Mentally
Every Time
Interview
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I don't think about Norfolk as I write songs, sadly no! But things like 'High' is a song about watching the dawn come up over the sea, and I've had many of those situations.
James Blunt / Singer-Songwriter
Dawn
Norfolk
Sea
Sadly
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I found in my writing that I could express emotions that, as an everyday person, I have no interest in expressing: these strange things that girls talk about called feelings.
James Blunt / Singer-Songwriter
Everyday
Strange
Strange Things
Express
No Interest
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I am very happy to say I look just like my dad. But mothers always think their children are prettier than they really are, and mine has always told me I look like Tom Cruise.
James Blunt / Singer-Songwriter
Happy
Dad
Children
Cruise
Always I Am Me
Dad Always Me
Dad I Am Me
Like
Really
Just
Very
Always
Me
Am
Dad Always I Am
Say
Look
Mine
Mothers
Prettier
Than
Tom
Tom Cruise
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I generally read everything about me. Based on my army experience, I think it's the right thing to do. Saddam Hussein didn't read his reviews and thought he was winning the war.
James Blunt / Singer-Songwriter
Army
Hussein
Right Thing
Saddam
Saddam Hussein
The Right Thing
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I don't know how to write without thinking what people would want. You don't know whether they want you to be black or white, so you kind of get a gray, something in the middle.
James Blunt / Singer-Songwriter
Thinking
White
Writing
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We are in the entertainment business. This should be fun. We are musicians; we don't save lives. We shouldn't... we shouldn't take ourselves too seriously or be revered that much.
James Blunt / Singer-Songwriter
Entertainment
Entertainment Business
Fun
Musicians
Revered
Save
Seriously
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Will you be my shoulder when I'm gray and older? Promise me tomorrow starts with you. Getting high, running wild among the stars above. Sometimes it's hard to believe you remember me.
James Blunt / Singer-Songwriter
Romantic
Running
Believe
Stars
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My dad was in the Army. The Army's not great pay, but, you know, we moved from Army patch to Army patch wherever that was. The Army also contributed to sending me off to boarding school.
James Blunt / Singer-Songwriter
Dad
Army
School
Great Dad Me
Boarding
Boarding School
Patch
Sending
Wherever
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My guitar survived Kosovo, then I went to visit a record company back in London and fell off my motorbike with it on my back, smashing it to bits. I was travelling at two miles per hour.
James Blunt / Singer-Songwriter
Bits
Miles
Motorbike
Smashing
Survived
Fell
Per
Record Company
Travelling
Visit
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I have fun with it and I am honest and open about the way I lead my life and don't mislead anyone. I've had the time of my life and thank God for that, it would be such a waste otherwise.
James Blunt / Singer-Songwriter
Fun
Mislead
Thank God
Waste
Would Be
Life God Time
Have Fun
Otherwise
Thank
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This will be my first visit [to Israel]. I've heard it's a special place, that Tel Aviv is exciting and that the atmosphere is excellent....I hope I'll have time to visit the holy places.
James Blunt / Singer-Songwriter
Atmosphere
Israel
Special
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I'm a fairly unaffected human being. I'm easy to talk to, I hope. I'm not too bothered about the clothes I'm wearing. I've been misquoted in interviews as to appear earnest. Which I am not.
James Blunt / Singer-Songwriter
Bothered
Earnest
Fairly
Appear
Misquoted
Unaffected
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I'm always ready for the enemy to come over the hill. I'm packed and set to go. That comes from my time in the army. I used to travel in a tank, but now it's a tour bus going to safer places.
James Blunt / Singer-Songwriter
Army
Bus
Enemy
My Time
Time Travel Always
Packed
Safer
Tank
Tour Bus
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I think sensitive is the wrong description of me. I'm British, actually, so quite bad at expressing myself in conversation, as any ex-girlfriend will tell you. I'm probably emotionally stunted.
James Blunt / Singer-Songwriter
British
Conversation
Description
Girlfriend
Sensitive
Thinking
Myself Me Will
Myself Me Bad
Emotionally
Expressing
Stunted
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I've always been independent. My father was in the army, so we moved every two years. I had to go round and bang on the neighbour's door each time to find out if they had kids I could play with.
James Blunt / Singer-Songwriter
Army
Independent
Moved
Neighbour
Time Always Father
Bang
Door
Each Time
Round
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I do have a ski lift named after me in Sweden... It's an honour. I got to smash a bottle against the first pillar and say, 'I name this chairlift James Blunt. God bless her and all who rides me.'
James Blunt / Singer-Songwriter
Bless
Blunt
God Bless
Honour
Sweden
Named
Bottle
James
Lift
Pillar
Rides
Ski
Smash
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It's taken a long time but eventually when I had the songs in place and demos right and I found myself a manager, that's when everything started happening quickly but I think that's always the way it is.
James Blunt / Singer-Songwriter
Demos
Long Time
Song
Stupid
Taken
Time Myself Always
Time Myself Long
Happening
Manager
Quickly
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School was pretty good about letting me take up music and that's where I had my first musical ideas and first said, 'Yeah, I'm going to be a musician.' I just had to do a quick stop gap in the army first.
James Blunt / Singer-Songwriter
Army
Ideas
Musical
Yeah
Good Music Me
Pretty
Gap
Letting
Musical Ideas
Pretty Good
Quick
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We see differences in people and seem to be afraid of people. The black or white or gay or straight - I don't necessarily look for differences but for similarities. We need to be looking out for each other.
James Blunt / Singer-Songwriter
Differences
Gay
White
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Carrie Fisher was the most remarkable person I've ever known. I made my first three albums in her house. 'Goodbye My Lover' was recorded in her bathroom. My life will not be nearly as much fun now she's gone.
James Blunt / Singer-Songwriter
Bathroom
Carrie
Goodbye
Remarkable
Life Fun My Life
Nearly
Lover
Fisher
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As a singer-songwriter who gets up on stage and sings about those things that make me vulnerable is an amazing experience. You get up on stage and effectively take your clothes off in front of thousands of people.
James Blunt / Singer-Songwriter
Clothes
People
Singers
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Being sent away to boarding school at seven is as great an inspiration as any songwriter could have - to be taken away from one's family and locked away for 10 years. It does create an incredible intensity of emotion.
James Blunt / Singer-Songwriter
Family
Emotion
Inspiration
Intensity
Locked
School
Seven
Taken
Years
Any
Does
Away
Boarding
Boarding School
Could
Create
Incredible
Sent
Songwriter
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My grandparents live in Cley, and my dad now has the windmill which is a guest house. So I've spent much time up there, but a lot of it was at school as well, and my dad was sent abroad so often as well with the army.
James Blunt / Singer-Songwriter
Army
Abroad
Guest
Windmill
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I have friends who were friends of mine before I did music and they are my friends now, and we share life experiences. It's no fun unless you're sharing with people, looking out for them as they are looking out for you.
James Blunt / Singer-Songwriter
Fun
Life Experience
People
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Like any parents, mine wanted me to have a secure job with a regular wage and career prospects. And the one job my father knew of, that he'd had experience of himself, was the army, so he could help me in that direction.
James Blunt / Singer-Songwriter
Army
Prospects
Secure
Direction
Experience Father Me
Himself
Mine
Wage
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I don't agree with superstitious routines, but there are a couple of things I'll always do before performing. I'll get together with the band and chill out, and then, just before I go on stage, I'll always check my flies.
James Blunt / Singer-Songwriter
Agree
Chill
Get Together
Performing
Check
Chill Out
Flies
Routines
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I think having toured the world and seeing many places, I've just been blown away by how we've really scarred our home. I'm as guilty as the next person if not more so. I travel a lot. The damage we do to our planet is huge.
James Blunt / Singer-Songwriter
Blown Away
Damage
Guilty
Our Planet
Home Travel World
Scarred
Toured
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Absolutely, it's a really weird stage because at the minute, I can walk down the street and be unrecognised, lead a normal life, but my label and everybody is warning me that will be changing and I'm in for a rollercoaster ride.
James Blunt / Singer-Songwriter
Labels
Normal
Normal Life
Rollercoaster
Stage
Stupid
Warning
Life Me Weird
Weird
Absolutely
Life Walk Me
Street
Walk
Label
Minute
Ride
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I stopped doing interviews for a long time because the words were mine, but they were in the wrong order. Context is a very important thing - a lot of the things I say aren't serious, and so to remove the laughter does me no favours.
James Blunt / Singer-Songwriter
Interviews
Laughter
Remove
Time Me Long
Context
Favours
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In a way song writing can almost be detrimental, because suddenly you find an outlet that is a kind of cheating. You don't need to have direct communication. You can say, 'I can't describe it to you, but I will record it and send it to you.'
James Blunt / Singer-Songwriter
Communication
Cheating
Detrimental
Direct
Song
Describe
Record
Outlet
Send
Song Writing
Suddenly
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I relax by catching up with my friends and family. When I am at home in Ibiza, I find the contrast of living on a divided island relaxing - with beauty and tranquillity in the north and a sense of fun, shallowness and celebration in the south.
James Blunt / Singer-Songwriter
Catching
Celebration
Contrast
Divided
Relax
Tranquillity
Friends And Family
Island
North
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I'm quite British in the sense of not expressing my emotions much. I save it for my songs. If you ask about a death in the family, or a lover, I will not be emotional. I'd probably answer with a smile. Because that's what we British blokes do.
James Blunt / Singer-Songwriter
Death
British
Ask
Quite
Lover
Emotions
Expressing
Save
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My mum was very good at making me take up musical instruments, so although there was no popular music she made me learn the recorder when I was three, the violin when I was five and the piano when I was seven. I took up the guitar myself when I was 14.
James Blunt / Singer-Songwriter
Instruments
Mum
Popular Music
Violin
Good Music Myself
Recorder
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I like 'Goodbye My Lover' because it's a really personal song and I recorded it in my landlady's bathroom in Los Angeles. She had a piano in there and for me listening back to it, it actually sounds like the voice I hear in my head. It's so close to what I can imagine.
James Blunt / Singer-Songwriter
Bathroom
Goodbye
Imagine
Los Angeles
Song
Voice
Actually
Angeles
Close
Lover
Me Song Listening
Head
Hear
Landlady
Los
Personal
Recorded
She
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I used to have an eBay addiction. I was really good at selling stuff. My sister needed to get to a funeral in Ireland - the airlines were on strike - so I listed her on eBay: damsel in distress. Guys were outbidding guys to be the hero and help her. A guy who owned a helicopter won.
James Blunt / Singer-Songwriter
Addiction
Ebay
Hero
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I am a troll. And do you know what? I really don't like social media apart from that aspect of it. Posting pictures of me doing this or that is really boring, but I enjoy engaging with people. I tell them it's just a laugh and to stay in touch if you're getting any grief. They're just opinions.
James Blunt / Singer-Songwriter
Aspect
Do You Know
Engaging
Grief
Social Media
Social Media Me I Am
Social Media I Am Me
I Am Me Boring
Opinions
Posting
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The weird thing about the subway is no one looks at each other. So I play the O2 in London. It's a 20,000 capacity venue, and then I'll take the subway to my gig, and everyone's going to my gig, and no one looks at you. If anyone does, they say, 'Hey, you look exactly like James Blunt, only smaller.'
James Blunt / Singer-Songwriter
Blunt
Capacity
Hey
London
Looks
Subway
Weird
Exactly
Gig
James
Smaller
They Say
Venue
Weird Thing
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I don't think I was ever designed to be a ubiquitous worldwide star. I'm a singer-songwriter writing quite personal songs. You're not supposed to chuck me on a stage with bells and whistles. There was a struggle ahead after that happened, and perhaps I was trying to write songs to compete in that arena.
James Blunt / Singer-Songwriter
Arena
Bells
Chuck
Bells And Whistles
Compete
Designed
Singer Songwriter
Ubiquitous
Worldwide
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I think I was lucky to be a little older when I became famous. But still, the shock of the world starting to treat you in a weird way... I had come from the army, where we had to deal with life or death, and suddenly, people were asking whether you were cool or not. I have never cared about whether I'm cool.
James Blunt / Singer-Songwriter
Famous
Army
Shock
Weird
Became
Cared
Older
Suddenly
Treat
Weird Way
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If you have good songs and a real desire to make music, the next thing to do, instead of approach record companies, is to get yourself a really good manager because then it allows you to focus on your profession of being a musician. Then they can focus on the darker art of the record label and the music industry.
James Blunt / Singer-Songwriter
Approach
Desire
Focus
Good Manager
Industry
Music Industry
Profession
Record Companies
Art Good Music
Companies
Darker
Instead
Record
Label
Manager
Next Thing
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Sometimes, reading my own media, the negativity can upset me, but I just deal with things on a positive basis. I mean, I have up to 20,000 people singing my words back to me on a nightly basis - they share my hopes and fears, and they relate to my own life experiences. Life can be pretty isolating, but that connection is always amazing.
James Blunt / Singer-Songwriter
Mean
Media
Negativity
Reading
Relate
Share
Singing
Upset
Positive Life Amazing
Basis
Connection
Experiences
Fears
Hopes
Life Experiences
Nightly
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There's a lot of music nowadays with people singing about how amazing their clothes are and how incredible their shoes are and how much jewelry they might be wearing or how much jewelry they want, how much money they have and the club that they're in and the alcohol that they're drinking. I think that's showing off. I don't think it's necessarily all that honest or all that interesting.
James Blunt / Singer-Songwriter
Drinking
Shoes
Thinking
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