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America is a funny place; it's a land of extremes, I think. There's fantastic, and there's gobsmackingly dreadful. In every realm you could imagine, they do extremes very well or badly, depending on how you look at it.
Passenger / Singer-Songwriter
Extremes
Imagine
Badly
Depending
Dreadful
Realm
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I think Passenger is a bit of an ambiguous thing because in the past, it's been a band, or it's been just me, or a duo or whatever, but I kind of like that as well. I think it's whatever that I'm doing with whoever I'm doing it with!
Passenger / Singer-Songwriter
Ambiguous
Band
Bit
Duo
In The Past
Passenger
Whoever
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Well if you can’t get what you love, You learn to love the things you’ve got .. If you can’t be what you want, You learn to be the things you’re not .. If you can’t get what you need, You learn to need the things that stop you dreaming
Passenger / Singer-Songwriter
Dream
Love You
Needs
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I think, after 'Let Her Go,' I wanted to show people that I don't just write really sad love songs about my ex-girlfriend: that there's another side to Passenger as well that's a bit more up-tempo and more inclined to social commentary.
Passenger / Singer-Songwriter
Sad
Commentary
Love People More
Side
Inclined
Love Songs
Passenger
Show People
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I started busking when I was 24. I was living with Mom and Dad. I'd broken up with my girlfriend and didn't know what I was doing with my life, and I thought, 'Well, this is the last shot - I'm going busking, and let's see what happens.'
Passenger / Singer-Songwriter
Mom And Dad
Life Dad Mom
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Ed Sheeran is a good mate of mine, and he just flies around the place doing every single bit of promo or gig or interview, and it's no wonder that when you combine that with immense talent that he's playing in stadiums and arenas around the world.
Passenger / Singer-Songwriter
Immense
Stadiums
Good World Talent
Arenas
Combine
Ed Sheeran
Flies
Gig
Interview
Mate
No Wonder
Promo
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People sometimes come up to me, and it's like they just want to capture Passenger. I feel like Pikachu. Sometimes, in the more sort of depressing moments, it feels like it's not about the music, it's just about the photo, and that really worries me.
Passenger / Singer-Songwriter
Capture
Depressing
Music Me People
Photo
Passenger
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If you're a priority artist, then you get an amazing amount of exposure and money thrown. If you are more niche, then it's not necessarily the way forward. If you want Instagram followers and fame, then the major labels are still really great for that.
Passenger / Singer-Songwriter
Exposure
Followers
Labels
Niche
Thrown
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I've grown up on American songwriters my whole life - listening to Paul Simon and Bob Dylan and people like John Prine - you know, classic, real songwriters. They've been the lion's share of what I've really focused on as a writer and as influences, too.
Passenger / Singer-Songwriter
Classic
Dylan
Songwriters
Bob Dylan
Influences
Lion
Paul
Paul Simon
Simon
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We plan tours months in advance, and you leave a few days off here and there where you feel you'll be tired after some shows, but if other opportunities keep coming in, those days get swallowed very quickly, and it's an impossibility to get this stuff right.
Passenger / Singer-Songwriter
Impossibility
Advance
Swallowed
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You see a lot of bands and a lot of artists making that mistake: They become successful for doing something, and then they change everything. They change the people; they change the approach. And then, all of a sudden, almost the essence of what you do is gone.
Passenger / Singer-Songwriter
Approach
Essence
Mistake
Successful
Almost
Artists
Change People Doing
Sudden
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I'm very much of that old-school mentality of believing that if it works with an acoustic guitar and a vocal, then it should work within any format - and especially when most of my live work is just guitar and vocals, so it really does have to work with only that.
Passenger / Singer-Songwriter
Acoustic Guitar
Format
Mentality
Vocal
Within
Acoustic
Believing
Works
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I still have the mentality of a street musician, because I was one for five years. Every opportunity that comes my way, I feel like, 'Absolutely, let's do this.' Sometimes, it's to my detriment. But I don't think you become successful by not saying yes to opportunities.
Passenger / Singer-Songwriter
Mentality
Detriment
Every Opportunity
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Before it happened to me, I'd look at other people who had become really successful and think, 'What a dream. That must be absolutely everything they ever wanted.' When it does happen to you, you realize yes, it's incredible. But it also comes with a bit of a weird aftertaste.
Passenger / Singer-Songwriter
Absolutely Everything
Me Weird Look
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To be honest, busking was a massive part of becoming aware of homelessness. I used to run into a lot of 'Big Issue' sellers and a lot of people on the street. It really opened my eyes to the kind of life that they live and the options that are open for them - or not, actually.
Passenger / Singer-Songwriter
Homelessness
Massive
Sellers
Opened
Options
To Be Honest
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When I sat down with all the songs before recording, I realised I'd written a few songs specifically about places in America - there was this song about Detroit and another about Yellowstone National Park. My dad is actually American, so I wrote another song about that side of my family.
Passenger / Singer-Songwriter
Detroit
Realised
Sat
Yellowstone
National Park
Park
Specifically
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I've played in some pretty weird settings; busking puts you in all kinds of situations. I can tell you the most depressing gig I've played was in the North of England. At that time, I was playing with a band. We drove 7 or 8 hours to Carlisle to play a 600 - 700 capacity venue - 9 people showed up.
Passenger / Singer-Songwriter
Capacity
Depressing
England
Settings
Weird
Time People I Can
Drove
Gig
North
Puts
Venue
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Maybe when I was a kid, when you have those crazy dreams about what music is going to be like - a string of No. 1 hits, a limo, and a fairground in your back garden - and then you start as a musician, and you realize very, very quickly, that's not how things work. So I just let go of all that stuff.
Passenger / Singer-Songwriter
Garden
Hits
Let Go
String
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Finally I'd found this way where I didn't need a record label; I didn't need to wait for some phone call to tell me, 'Go and do it'. It's like, I'm going to get up with a bag of CDs and an amp and my guitar and make it happen for myself. That was such a liberating feeling, and I think it was the start of everything.
Passenger / Singer-Songwriter
Cds
Found
Guitar
Liberating
Make It Happen
Myself Guitar Me
Myself Me Wait
Amp
Bag
Call
Phone
Feeling
Finally
Wait
Happen
Record
Label
Phone Call
Record Label
Start
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