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• ‟ After the first album, I felt like I needed to one up myself - get even bigger features - and I spent six months thinking about that and not making any music.

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• ‟ There's a need for music that has urgency and emotional honesty. That's why people are reintroducing themselves to guitar music - that instrument has an ability to emote.

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• ‟ Being from a background of dance music and what you might call club music or electronic music, I think something that gets neglected in that scene is personal vulnerability.

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• ‟ I think there's a huge pivot in popular music, and just in culture in general, towards art that is vulnerable and emotionally honest.

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• ‟ When I started making music I wanted it to have a narrative and be conceptual, but as time went on I thought it was probably more practical for a first album just to have good music.

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• ‟ There was a footballer, Matt Le Tissier, from Guernsey. But as far as music, no, not many people have come out of there.

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• ‟ If you grew up in London's East End you'd probably be inclined to be into something like grime music. But if you're removed from it, like in Guernsey, you can have a wider set of influences, and you're not tied down to any genre or any scene. I think that affects my sound, for sure.

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• ‟ I started playing violin when I was about five years old and I learned to read a little bit of music, but that's all been long, long forgotten! I actually quit violin to teach myself guitar and just went from there.

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• ‟ I think I can pinpoint the moment that I realized that I enjoyed hip-hop music and it was the video game called Need For Speed Underground.

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• ‟ I feel like people are now praying for some authenticity and some human touch to music. There's no simpler outlet to that than guitar and piano.

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• ‟ I've always appreciated having a wide music taste, despite making what a lot of people would call electronic music.

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• ‟ I was hedging my bets with university. I always wanted to do music, it was just about waiting for the point when I could confidently say 'okay, I reckon there's enough momentum behind this thing to sustain myself.'

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• ‟ The way streaming is going, this movement in the market of music would suggest that doing a long-form project, especially for a new artist like me - someone who relies on a lot of digital following - it would make more sense for me to release the songs individually.

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• ‟ All punk music is is rebellion, going against the grain. It takes different forms. Sometimes it's a band throwing their instruments around or making really violent and noisy sounds, but it doesn't have to take that sonic form. It can take more of an energy.

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• ‟ I was at Sussex University studying English lit and philosophy, I had two essays due in and three seminars that day, and at the same time I was messaging my manager because I'd just started to put together the pieces of like, 'Wow. I really don't want to be doing any essays anymore. Why don't I just give this music thing a go?'

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• ‟ When things socially and politically get difficult, punk music suddenly comes back again, and there's just a really healthy pivot away from music that's not humanly understandable.

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• ‟ I didn't want to just be making music randomly and not have any direction.

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