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" 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. "

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" I've always had really messy hair. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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? "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

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