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" As a kid, I loved to dress up as Ian Dury and run around hitting people with drumsticks. Members of my family, neighbours, friends, kids at school - no one was safe from my rhythm sticks. "

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" I don't particularly like attention. I like to do things on my own. I like to dress myself. People always ask that at shoots: 'Do you want any help?' That's the weirdest question. "

Eliot Sumner

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Dress

You

" I write most of my stuff when I'm on a train or a plane, any mode of transport. I like trains because you hear this motoric rhythm and the scenery is great. You go into your own little world. You don't have to be anywhere else. "

" I didn't come out as gay; I came out as I don't really believe in gender. "

" On my fourth or fifth birthday, a guitar was given to me, and I made a new friend. A very loud friend. "

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Friend

" I like to write from a slightly sad or complicated place. But with a sense of hope and happiness at the same time. "

Eliot Sumner

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Time

" It's difficult to explain exactly how I react to music, but if it makes me feel anything at all, then I'll have some kind of emotional relationship to it. That's what defines good music to me - if it makes me truly feel something. "

Eliot Sumner

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Feel

" It stresses me out writing songs,; I get really super nervous and speedy. I feel like I'm possessed. "

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Out

" In 2009, I fractured my skull in a freak accident at an L.A. restaurant. I suffered a seizure and was rushed into hospital. I was so out of it that I refused to let them scan my brain. My dad rushed to my bedside and talked me into having the CAT scan - he told me that I might die if I didn't go through with it. "

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" For me, Paul Simon has always been an incredible songwriter, as he writes very complicated songs that sound very simple, and he makes it look so easy when it's not. "

Eliot Sumner

Easy

Complicated

" I would make documentaries if it was a worthy cause. I have a lot of respect for people who put themselves in harm's way to make people see that something needs to be done. "

" I can only be myself, and if I have to suffer for that, that's okay, because to pretend to be somebody else - I tried that, it's terrible. "

" I'm very much a creature of habit. I don't like to try to new things. "

" It's always best to challenge yourself and go to a place out of your comfort zone. "

" My French is terrible, and my Spanish is even worse. I find Spanish really difficult. They speak so quickly, whereas in German, it's very clear what they're saying. It's easier to repeat. "

" I'm an extremist. I don't do things in halves. I don't moderate anything. That can be with work or with good things as well. But often, I take it a bit too far. "

" I'm a bit of a geek when it comes to music. I like studio gear. I'm always looking it up on eBay and seeing what I can afford. "

" I picked up the guitar when I was 4, and from then, I could never be bored. "

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Guitar

Could

" Self-sufficiency is vitally important to my self-respect. I never wanted to rely on my parents in that way, because I knew that if I got used to it, I'd be reliant all my life. "

" People always have to have a reference - I think I'll always be in the shadow of my parents. "

" I only wear black. I think it suits me. "

" I started listening to a lot of Jimi Hendrix and Neil Young when I was 8 or 9 years old - I had siblings that gave me good music instead of the crap that was on the radio in the '90s. "

Eliot Sumner

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Radio

" I sometimes suffer from insomnia, and one of the first times it ever happened, I was like, 'I don't know what to do with myself,' so I started writing a song, and by morning, it was finished. It was about how I couldn't sleep... I was 14. "

" I was somewhat of a mute at school, so people were quite scared! "

" I think, forever, I was trying to figure out maybe... what I am. But I don't think anyone should feel pressured to have any kind of label or tag on them. We should treat everybody the same... Me, I don't like to be put down to a specific thing. We're all human beings. "

" I like to move around. It suits me. I grew up in Wiltshire on a farm, and that's the only place I call home. "

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Place

" I'm very shy and awkward; I can't have a normal conversation, and then people think I'm being a bit rude, but really I'm not. "

" I wear a lot of black. Like my heart. "

" I was very young when I did 'I Blame Coco,' and I never really recognized that sound as me. "

" With a band I feel stronger. It's not just me and my weird thoughts. "

Eliot Sumner

Weird

Feel

" I knew I wasn't going to write a record as soon as I got signed, because I hadn't had any life experiences. I was still at school, and I wasn't going to write about that. "