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" I've got perfectionist issues, as I can't seem to let tracks out the studio - it drives my manager nuts. "

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" I really enjoy 'festival life,' as it were, and I love the reactions when I bring out my guitar on stage. The crowd are always a bit like, 'What the hell is this urban guy doing with a guitar,' and that's what I love - the shock element of it all! "

" My main thing is I just want to share as much hope and happiness as possible for music. If I can share as many moments and help people believe in themselves... if I can do that, then I'll feel like my job is done. "

" I want to be a little bit brave. I want to feel scared sometimes. That's what's going to change the music business, if we have that kind of attitude. "

" I'm all for trying anything once; otherwise, you end up like David Guetta - reproducing the same formula over and over. "

" My fans are like, 'Lab does what he does,' which is really cool. If I came out with a Jack White rock tune tomorrow, people would be like, 'Yeah, cool man,' which is great. "

" I don't think about the success that I've had - I've had a lot of success with music - but I always look at it like it's a new day. "

" I actually tried to learn the dictionary at one point. It didn't work; I only got through the first few pages. "

" You can't go up to girls and start talking about minor 7ths and expect to pull. It's not going to work. "

" I remember my brother came home with a bass and played a blues solo on it. I just went insane for days afterwards learning that. "

" It's a lot easier producing for people or being in the background, and they can take all the fire from the front. But in order to express the ideas that I have without any kind of contamination, I thought it would be a cool thing to be out front. "

" I'm from Hackney, and it's an area that is not so pretty, and we have a different way of expressing ourselves than somebody from uptown that has lots of money. "

" My ethos is musical freedom: to create whatever I want. "

" I'm a perfectionist, and to actually finish something is good for me. "

" Everyone in my family has been in music - my cousins, my grandmother, my grandfather - so it's quite a big family tree. "

" I have learned that while your putting your record together you can get so caught up in making what you want that you forget what you wanted in the first place. "

" You've got to live and die by your decisions. "

" I definitely didn't wanna be a one-dimensional artist that you can just put into one box. Because, to me, we're all masters of certain energies, and we all create different colours. "

" I have to be honest: I think production is mad - exciting - because, of course, you're creating the record. When you're a singer, you're just singing. Creating the music, directing, and seeing where it's gonna go in production is very, very exciting. "

" I think, as an artist, I wear a lot of different hats, and people have to join all of the dots. "

" I got into music through just being inspired by my brother and sisters. They all sing, play instruments and write - and they're very good at it. "

" I'm not just looking to be famous and attach myself to famous names. I want to make history in the business in terms of creativity. "

" Of course, success takes you where your character can't sustain you. "

" When I was younger, I'd be in the studio three days straight to get something right, and my manager would be like, 'Go home!' Even now, I still sleep in the studio sometimes, but I can't do it quite as often. I've got gigs; I can't have my hobo beard! But if you love what you're doing, you can't stop. It's obsessive. "

" I'm a hundred percent a rock n' roll guy. "

" I've made so many changes to my records because of the way the audience has reacted at the various festivals I've played - I've taken tracks back into the studio, stripped them bare, and built them back up again to create something entirely different. "

" You can make what you want. People care about what the artist has to say, what the sound is, and how it affects them. "

" I grew up not really having a father figure, and it didn't bother me, because he wasn't there in the first place. But then he started other families, and I was jealous. It was like he was happy without our family. "

" As a breed, I think artists are never 100% satisfied with their work, and we will always want that little bit of extra time to put the final gloss on it. "

" I'm a musical geek. It's like there's this big, wild universe in my head, and I love to express it. "

" I have eight siblings, and we formed a group called Mac 9. I was Mac 7. "