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" I'm a huge hip-hop fan from way back in the day. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Harry Potter is awesome. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I think the music I've created is quite odd, and people are going to start talking about that. "

" I don't really do that whole 'single life' thing. I'm kind of heads down and get things done. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

" Country music is some of the best-written music in the world, so yeah, one day, I would keep my mind open to doing a country record. "

" I don't think that there's much that sets me apart from other musicians, but I think there are definitely things that set me apart from other kinds of artists. I feel that musicians do it their own way, write their own songs and put on a great live shows. "

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

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

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

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

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