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" I've always got a notepad on or a voice recorder recording ideas. "

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" I thought about going onto the first one, Pop Idol. My mum was saying, 'Go on!' But I decided not to. 'The X Factor,' though, doesn't really seem to be a show about musical talent anymore. "

" If you're going to call yourself a musician, you have to go out and make music. "

" My best mates when I was 19 were all in their 30s. I used to go to all their house parties, and they were crazier than the guys who were 17, 18. They were so much more liberated than the people who were apparently shackle-free. "

" When I've got time off, my feet get itchy really quickly. "

" I like to indulge all the facets of my personality. There's none that I don't think, in a way, I would want to take away from. "

" Whatever I do, I like to be the one doing it. I don't just like to get someone in to run it and put a name to it. "

" The way you react to each challenge forms who you become. "

" It's all a progression towards hopefully one day making a record that can be the definitive you can offer. Some bands come in with that at first, and the great bands never really stray from that. I want to earn my stripes. "

" I'm in the highest bracket. There's no way that a 22-year-old should be hit for that amount of money when he's got his whole life ahead of him. "

" I remember I wanted to be Zorro, but I also wanted to be a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. I obviously had ideas above my station. "

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