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• ‟ I grew up with parents who really encouraged me to listen to as much music as I could.

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• ‟ It's amazing to be nominated for the Brits' Critics' Choice Award 2016. It's such a significant award that highlights the importance of new music, so it's a genuine honour to have been nominated alongside some other incredible new acts from the U.K.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ There's a stigma attached to 'pop music,' like it's a taboo word. It used to make my skin crawl when people said it, and I'd say, 'I'm not a pop star! I want to be a respected musician!' But I think people have changed the way they think about it.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ I genre-hop quite a lot. I love manipulating genre and deconstructing it and making it irrelevant. Genreless music is great because it means you get to write in any genre that you like.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ My mission is to just keep creating music. If it helps people in some way, then I'm doing the right thing.

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• ‟ I didn't do myself any favours. I would be resentful of my own ideas even before I'd said them out loud. But music was always the most consistent and peaceful thing for me. So I taught myself to be my harshest critic rather than just a mean voice in the back of my head.

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• ‟ I don't listen to much music on the go because I tend either to be writing my own music or wanting a break from the music around me.

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• ‟ I want my music to sound good on whatever people are listening - laptop speakers, those crappy little white ones you get with your PC.

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• ‟ All I do is hope that someone feels something from listening to my music.

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• ‟ Who am I to sit here and say I'm going to change the face of music?

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• ‟ I find it hard to not like music if it has passion behind it and good integrity. Only if it's made for the wrong reasons and shows a lack of respect for its audience will I find something to dislike.

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• ‟ I am only interested in celebrating music.

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• ‟ I enjoy the music I make because I have to - if I didn't, I wouldn't want to make it, and I wouldn't want it to be heard by other people.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ I was put through piano lessons when I was a kid. I say 'put through' because it was fun and I loved it, and it's been beneficial now, but it was difficult because, although I can read music, I much prefer just playing and improvising and at least finding my own way to play an instrument.

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• ‟ I was studying primary school education. I was going to be a teacher. I was going to get my teaching qualification and have that as my safety net and then tackle the music industry.

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• ‟ I wanted to be a teacher because that is all I knew. It was a great course on primary school education, in which I could specialise in music, but I ended up dropping out after I was honest with myself about what I really wanted to do with my life.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ I hope that I am, in a way, helping and touching other people with my music, and being a musician and having this as a job gives me a sense of purpose beyond my own selfish needs.

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• ‟ There is a pressure, but my job essentially is not to listen to that pressure, not to buckle underneath that pressure, but instead to continue making music in the way that I have been making it.

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• ‟ Winning the BBC Music Sound Of 2016 poll has left me feeling pretty stunned at the end of one of the most emotionally and physically intense years of my life.

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