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" My only incentive is to write music that changes me, where the process of making it is a discovery and is true in some way, at that moment. "
Johnny Flynn
Way
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Moment
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" The moment you have children, it's like your heart gets out of your body, puts on clothes, and walks away. "
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" I guess I started writing poetry and stuff and then decided to set it to music. "
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" I'm married to the girl that I first went out with when I was 16. We were on and off for years; now we're married with a kid, so I don't have that many exes. "
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" Bob Dylan has and Einstein had their own way of perceiving the universe and translating it for us. "
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" I think the two are kind of synonymous for me; songwriting is like my form of diary making. It's how I process the world. Without doing that, I feel kind of lost. The characters that I play often come out in the songs and the challenges that they face, albeit in an abstract way. "
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" I have a classical music background. I studied violin and trumpet. "
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" In my mind, there's usually a fairly definitive kind of narrative when I write. But I don't want to enforce that on other people. I think that's why I like using metaphor so much. "
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" The Band mean a lot to me in terms of what I aspire to achieve with my group, as the music they made went against the fashion of the time. "
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" The reason I stopped music for a while and concentrated on theatre was that it was more conducive to parenting; having the days free was quite handy. I love them both. I hope I don't have to compromise one for the other. "
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Hope
Love
" It's great being an actor and being part of a play or a film where there's usually quite a big group of people who are collaborating, and your job is really to fit in and share that energy. With music, because I write the songs, it's a broader, more abstract process. "
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Group
Job
" I think everyone in their 30s looks back at their 20s and thinks, 'Oh God, if I'd just done this and this, and not done that.' "
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Done
Back
" I don't really write songs. They're just there anyway, chiseling away at the atmosphere, and suddenly they're like, 'Oh, thanks for coming. Thanks for finding me. We'll share each other now.' "
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" I had a series of jobs in the small fishing village in West Wales where my family lived when I was a teenager. I worked as a fisherman in the day, and then the skipper and his wife ran a small restaurant - she'd cook the fish he caught. "
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" I find it hugely exciting to be dealing with another writer's language. "
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" I'm not a funny person. "
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Person
" I like the idea of letting the music do its own work and the stories being more expressionful - if that's a word - in people's imagination. I've just got a thing about people and songs telling you how you should feel. "
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" I like really bad puns - proper, red-top, nasty puns - I find them funny. "
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" I'm not a fan of taking too long in the studio. I always do one vocal take and jump out of the control room, and people push me back in... It's a real turn-off to hear things that are too polished. I feel like I've almost fought for the right to be that kind of musician - we used to be on a major label, and now we're on an indie. "
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