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" 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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" With social networks these days, everyone needs to know everything all the time. But the problem is, people are so used to short snippets of information that no one has any attention span anymore. I don't, anyway. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Music is the only thing that I trust. "

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

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

" Music is about self-expression and representing the times, and I think fashion is the same. It took me a long time to find my own style, both in terms of fashion and music. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" It's not a nice thing to have a song written about you. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" I think everyone's got an obstacle in their career that they have to challenge. I think, in a way, that pushes you to prove who you are. "

" 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 make my songs slightly abstract so that people can interpret them their own way. I think that's a lot more special, so you can hear a song and think, 'I feel exactly that way,' even if it wasn't written for that feeling. "

" I try to read, but my attention span is so bad, and ever since Netflix was invented, that's all I do in my spare time, which is really bad, but it's like a chore to read for me. "

" 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. "