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" If Adele's seen as boring, then I'm happy to be boring as well. "

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" Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" In my eyes, there's no one better than Stevie Wonder. He's a top dude. "

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

" I do like my hair. It took a while to come around to the fact that it was quite a unique value point. "

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

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

" It was my love for the guitar that first got me into music and singing. Growing up, I was inspired by The Beatles and Bob Dylan. Damian Rice was a huge influence for me musically. "

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

" I've never dated anyone in Hollywood - or anyone famous, for that matter. I don't know that I'm ever gonna write a song that you will know who it's about. "

" I think encouraging young people to twerk might be a bad thing. It's a stripper's move. If I had a daughter of nine, I wouldn't want her twerking. "

" 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. "

" Nashville is wicked. It's like a proper music community, but it's also quintessentially American. You bump into people there with cowboy hats that spit in jars and call you 'boy.' I just love that. "

" 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. "

" The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories. "

" My love songs are very personal and quite weird. They don't really have the big radio hit choruses because basically they're my therapy, stuff I have to get off my chest. "

" I think I've been around for a while. But I still have to pay my dues. "

" 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. "

" You can't call me a Twitter phenomenon or a YouTube one. These things are useful, but so's hard gigging. One year I did 311 shows. I did six in one night alone. "

" 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've always been a massive fan of John Mayer. I think he's very talented. "

" The best thing about being on the road in general is just playing every single night in front of people that are genuinely fans of your music. "

" 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 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. "

" I've always had really messy hair. "

" Everyone knows almost everything about me. I make it very clear that I'm cool with people knowing all my personal life through my songs. "

" I think I need to accept the fact that I am where I am today because fans have shared my music illegally and legally, but I wouldn't be here today without the Internet, so I can't speak out against it. "

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