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" I think YouTube has destroyed the genre barrier. People can be into Justin Bieber and Eminem at the same time. It's a good thing. "

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" If I can put on my album in a car or on my headphones and listen to the whole thing and love it, that's what I'm going to be happy putting out there. "

" I'd like to have kids and a wife, and you know, drop them off at school and like, do normal things rather that constantly being on tour. Because I'm young now and I haven't really got a social life. This is all I do. It's the best job in the world, but I'll get to the point where there's more to life than work. "

" I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have colours. "

" I think the moment you start trying to please a fan base is when you start going downhill. I'm going to always, always write about what I want, even if it doesn't necessarily cater to most of them. "

" The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile. "

" I've always had really messy hair. "

" Everyone still thinks I'm Scottish - that's totally wicked. "

" The more you write tunes, the better they will become. The more you do gigs, the better you will become. "

" Be original; don't be scared of being bold! "

" But once you've made a song and you put it out there, you don't own it anymore. The public own it. It's their song. It might be their song that they wake up to, or their song they have a shower to, or their song that they drive home to or their song they cry to, scream to, have babies to, have weddings to - like, it isn't your song anymore. "

" I've done some really weird gigs. The ones where no one turned up - they're probably not the interesting ones to talk about. I played some pretty random ones in L.A. I signed to play all-R&B nights or an all-comedy night where I'd be the only white person there. They were fun. "

" As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations. "

" I've never really been a confident person, except from a musical standpoint. I had to push myself early on, but it got easier with each gig. "

" Growing up, I was inspired by The Beatles and Bob Dylan. Damian Rice was a huge influence for me musically. "

" The public has heard the stereotypical love songs a million times, and they've heard the stereotypical life-or-death songs millions of times. It's good to mix it up a little bit. "

" I don't know if my songs fit in films. "

" I want to have a career that evolves as I go on. "

" I find the whole concept of women screaming at me so odd. It's very flattering, but I don't think I will ever consider myself to be a sex symbol. "

" Some of my tattoos are a bit silly, but I know where and what time I got them. "

" I personally don't think ginger men have a habit of being attractive. We have to make ourselves seem attractive by doing stuff. "

" The whole 'studly womaniser' thing, I mean, I quite enjoy the title - it's just not very accurate. "

" I get tweets every single day going, like, 'I'm so glad you weren't on 'The X Factor.' "

" 'Kiss Me.' That's my 'Twilight' tune, a song you'd have on the 'Twilight' soundtrack. "

" My parents worked in the art world. They were really supportive of my music in that they allowed me to drop out of school and move out of our home, which not many parents would do. "

" Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song. "

" Try to find someone with a sense of humor. That's an important thing to have because when you get into an argument, one of the best ways to diffuse it is to be funny. You don't want to hide away from a point, because some points are serious, but you'd rather have a discussion that was a discussion, rather than an argument. "

" I'd like to say that I'm a rock star, but I'm not - I'm honestly more of a relationship kind of guy. I'm a guy you could take home to meet your mum rather than a guy your mum wouldn't like. "

" I've had years of teasing about my red hair, but I definitely think it toughened me up. If you're ginger, you end up pretty quick-witted. "

" I saw Damien Rice in Dublin when I was 13, and that inspired me to want to pursue being a songwriter... I practised relentlessly and started recording my own EPs. At 16, I moved to London and played any gigs I could, selling CDs from my rucksack to fund recording the next, and it snowballed from there. "

" Whenever you have an ex, and they're like, 'I hope we can still be friends!' and you weren't friends before you started dating, then what do you go back to, really? "