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" 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. "

Johnny Flynn

Amazing

Play

Cool

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Johnny Flynn

Talk

Names

" The world that I know and the world that I come from is from the arts, and my wife's an artist, and I've been a musician since I left college, and there's tons of musicians I'd love to play. "

" 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. "

" I try and stay in my right brain as much as I can, but my left takes over. "

" Bob Dylan has and Einstein had their own way of perceiving the universe and translating it for us. "

" I'm not that politically educated. "

Johnny Flynn

Educated

Politically

" We all have these shades in our nature: it's a spectrum within all of us. "

" A lot of the work I've done has involved playing quite sympathetic characters. "

" Weirdly, my dad didn't want me to become an actor, he was always quite resistant to it. He told me as much many times. That just made it more attractive to me. "

Johnny Flynn

Actor

Always

" 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. "

" I can't remember a 'best gig,' and my brain doesn't work in absolute terms like that. "

Johnny Flynn

Best

Brain

" The reason I stopped music for a while and concentrated on theatre was that it was more conducive to parenting; having the days free was quite handy. I love them both. I hope I don't have to compromise one for the other. "

" I definitely asked too many questions of my teachers and was probably a bit facetious at times. "

" I played trumpet for Noah and the Whale a couple of times. "

" It's not in the mainstream media, but across towns, it is amazing how there are small groups of people getting together and forming artistic collectives - they may not be being overtly political, but I'd say by channelling their energy into community projects, that's a valid political statement. "

" My dad was working class. "

" I grew up playing classical violin and a lot of Bach and Mozart and the things that Einstein loved. "

Johnny Flynn

Playing

Things

" We had no money, my dad was out of work a lot, and we never owned a house. It was very hand-to-mouth. "

" The truth is there's always a hum of people playing folk music in cities. "

" I'm not a funny person. "

" I have a classical music background. I studied violin and trumpet. "

" Westminster politics is very unattractive, and people are channelling political energy into more inward questioning - there are a lot of musicians whose songs are all about feeling, and it's almost like that's the only safe place to express yourself. "

" You might as well acknowledge what came before, because you can never do something wholly new. It's not unoriginal to make your references clear. "

" My dad was an actor, and he made it all seem quite magical. It felt like a slightly subversive thing, telling stories, when all of my other friends' parents were builders or bank clerks. It's always seemed quite magical to me. "

" I really love a lot of early Sixties R&B, rock n' roll, and I love performing songs that have that power and soulfulness. "

" I'm not really interested in myself in my writing. I can't see myself in the songs, even though I know different parts of me are there. "

Johnny Flynn

Writing

Songs

" I'm not a fan of taking too long in the studio. I always do one vocal take and jump out of the control room, and people push me back in... It's a real turn-off to hear things that are too polished. I feel like I've almost fought for the right to be that kind of musician - we used to be on a major label, and now we're on an indie. "

Johnny Flynn

Control

Long

" When I was young, I was being pushed, against my will, towards becoming a classical musician. I had music scholarships; I had to play the violin and do orchestra practice and that sort of stuff. That meant I didn't get to do any school plays. I desperately wanted to do that. "

" 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. "