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• ‟ The music you play, it's never intended for other people, so it's quite amazing dealing with stuff now, because obviously any tracks I write, a lot of folks are going to hear. It definitely plays on my mind quite a lot.

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• ‟ I love playing music - and live especially - and I love being on the road. It gets in your blood.

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• ‟ I don't think I've ever been particularly careerist about music.

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• ‟ In my late teens, I fell out of love with music - you know how kids are, when you're encouraged to do something, you rebel. But then I picked it back up again.

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• ‟ John Martyn is my biggest hero. My mom got me into his music when I was a kid. I've looked up to him more than anyone as a songwriter. And Bert Jansch is one of the pillars of acoustic music, the holy grail.

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• ‟ People have to learn... what do you really want from a live show? Do you want people to stand there and entertain you or to challenge themselves and you? It's live music, it's alive.

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• ‟ There's force-feeding people synthesised music, then there's a skill in technically being able to play an instrument, even if that is some electronic pad.

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• ‟ I was never in music to make it to award shows.

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• ‟ I need some time and space to make sure I'm on the right track with myself and playing music I want to play.

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• ‟ We played a lot of live shows, we just kept plugging away and playing music and people kept coming back.

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• ‟ I've always thought I crossed this really weird gap between the pop world and some slightly more left-field singer-songwriter music, but everyone's always comparing me with Ed Sheeran. It's frustrating.

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• ‟ I never understood how one could write a whole book: It is so technically challenging, and it's incredible the way writers put entire worlds inside of them on such a large scale. I tend to have that same feeling when I listen to music - it daunts me and makes me feel quite unsettled listening to so much talent and ambition.

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• ‟ Surfing and music have always been two separate sides of my life. I'm quite a fun-loving person most of the time, but I feel like I always get the serious side out when I'm playing music, and then I have fun the rest of the time when I get in the sea.

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