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" I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn't matter what the genre; nowadays, it's so much harder than it ever was. "

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" I moonlight as a singer. "

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" I'm a complete and utter busker. "

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" If your music is great, you will have fans, not because you have spent time chatting on social media. "

" Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life. "

" I'd been round the world a hundred times and had started to forget where I'd been. I knew I'd been there: it said it on the tour map. I could remember the name of the city but I couldn't remember what it was like - it was a massive blur. "

" There's not an instruction manual on how to deal with success, so you just have to rely on having great friends and a good team. "

" There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now. "

" I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else. "

" Music is just such... it's not therapy, but it's a release, it's a joy, it's a pleasure. And it's a job - which is weird, because I don't think of it as a job. "

" I pack every minute I can with something to do. "

" I always knew I'd be in music in some sort of capacity. I didn't know if I'd be successful at it, but I knew I'd be doing something in it. Maybe get a job in a record store. Maybe even play in a band. I never got into this to be a star. "

" I watch everybody every night, from sitting down to being on their feet at the end, and I feel a sense of reinvention, of caring, presenting these songs in their purest form. "

" I always just wanted to be the singer or the bass player in the band. I'd love to have a band, where I was obviously the singer, but where it wasn't me, it wasn't my name. "

" I've always wanted to push myself and move with the tide. That's just how I am and it's worked for me. "

" I think I'm better behind the camera than I am in front. "

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" I've only ever trusted my gut on everything. I don't trust my head, I don't trust my heart, I trust my gut. "

" Focus on your music and not technology. "

" I never had a long-term plan. "

" To be a celebrity, I couldn't think of anything more cringe-worthy. "

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" I like to be able to present myself in two or three different ways because I've never really wanted to rest on my laurels and be something that people expected. "

" I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it. "

" Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are people who are exceptional at it, however, and if you can do both things, then that's fantastic, but if you are a writer, the time is better spent on a clever lyric than a clever tweet. "

" I need to be able to rock out. "