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" All the adults in my family were actors, so there wasn't much else in terms of role models. I fell in love with that world, being backstage at the theatre. "
World
Role
Much
" A lot of the work I've done has involved playing quite sympathetic characters. "
Playing
Done
Involved
" As a jobbing actor or musician, you have to take any work you can get. "
Musician
Get
Take
" Bob Dylan has and Einstein had their own way of perceiving the universe and translating it for us. "
Way
Bob Dylan
Had
" Certain films should only be watched at 40,000 feet. Like, certain comedies and certain, uh, emotionally charged movies. "
Should
Feet
Films
" Diane Cluck is part of the anti-folk movement in New York. She's got a really haunting voice, and she usually sings in the pentatonic scale. "
New
New York
Got
" Folk music - and what people are now perceiving as being folk music - is music that's quite close to the ground. The songs sound quite old, even if they're new. They sound like they've been sung by different people for years. "
Now
Music
New
" I actually do bits of my writing in sort of incidental spaces - when I'm traveling on the Tube or on a bus. More often than not, it's a reaction to how you feel about something, and if you're sitting down and concentrating on, 'I must write something,' then you can't have a truthful reaction. "
Bus
You
Down
" I always love going to New York. "
York
Always
New York
" I can't remember a 'best gig,' and my brain doesn't work in absolute terms like that. "
Like
Best
Brain
" I definitely asked too many questions of my teachers and was probably a bit facetious at times. "
Bit
Too
Teachers
" I did a lot of theater as a young actor in my early twenties, and my first few records really came from writing songs through the rehearsal processes. "
Young
Through
Early
" I don't really write songs. They're just there anyway, chiseling away at the atmosphere, and suddenly they're like, 'Oh, thanks for coming. Thanks for finding me. We'll share each other now.' "
Write
Now
Like
" I feel really lucky that I somehow have blagged my way into loads of different experiences. I find making a film fascinating, I find making a play amazing, and working with my band and scoring things... it's all really cool. I'm just a glutton for experience, really. "
Amazing
Play
Cool
" I fell in love with the legend of Paul Robeson as a kid. My dad would tell me all these amazing stories about his life and, bizarrely, ended up singing to Robeson on his deathbed. "
Amazing
Legend
Singing
" I find it hugely exciting to be dealing with another writer's language. "
Language
Find
Dealing
" I first came across Langhorne Slim when I saw him play live, and he's an incredibly infectious performer. The way he works the crowd is mind-blowing. You can listen to his music without really listening to his lyrics, but it pays off if you do. "
Listening
Music
You
" If you're in a garage band, it's about being better than the band in the next-door garage. But in the folk tradition, it's more a vibe of sharing. "
Tradition
You
Band
" If you're trying to do something wholly new, it's hard to fully trust it. But if you use forms that have come before, it lends your music weight and authority. It's also a way to acknowledge that it's not just you who's feeling these things. The emotions are coming through you from a whole history. "
Way
Music
Trust
" I grew up playing classical violin and a lot of Bach and Mozart and the things that Einstein loved. "
Playing
Things
Up
" I guess I started writing poetry and stuff and then decided to set it to music. "
Music
Stuff
Poetry
" I had a series of jobs in the small fishing village in West Wales where my family lived when I was a teenager. I worked as a fisherman in the day, and then the skipper and his wife ran a small restaurant - she'd cook the fish he caught. "
Fishing
Fish
Family
" I had to learn how to work in a studio at first because it's a totally different creative environment to the 'bedroom recordings' I'd done before, where I could translate my own ideas without having to explain them to anyone. "
Environment
Done
Work
" I have a classical music background. I studied violin and trumpet. "
Trumpet
Background
Violin
" I imagine that, for most people, acting isn't something they think is a viable option, whereas for me, it was the most viable option. No adults around me knew how to do anything else. "
Think
Most
Me
" I just said, casually, 'You know, I passed up on auditioning for Einstein.' And my friend was like, 'You idiot, you have to do it!' She made me do it. I sent the tapes off assuming that somebody would say, 'Ha ha, very funny.' "
Funny
Me
Know
" I like getting older. I always looked younger than I was, and I found that people wouldn't give me the room to speak. The older I get, it's like, 'Oh, I'm still talking, and they're still listening.' "
Listening
People
Getting Older
" I like really bad puns - proper, red-top, nasty puns - I find them funny. "
Puns
Bad
Find
" I like the idea of letting the music do its own work and the stories being more expressionful - if that's a word - in people's imagination. I've just got a thing about people and songs telling you how you should feel. "
Imagination
You
People
" I'm a big Bob Dylan fan. I'm also a blues geek. "
Blues
Bob Dylan
Big
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