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" Nashville is wicked. It's like a proper music community, but it's also quintessentially American. You bump into people there with cowboy hats that spit in jars and call you 'boy.' I just love that. "

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" 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. "

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Alone

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

" The whole 'studly womaniser' thing, I mean, I quite enjoy the title - it's just not very accurate. "

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

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

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

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

" If Adele's seen as boring, then I'm happy to be boring as well. "

" 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. "

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End

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

" 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. "

" I think YouTube has destroyed the genre barrier. People can be into Justin Bieber and Eminem at the same time. It's a good thing. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

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

" 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 would love to get a Moonman! I'd put it next to my other awards. I don't have a cabinet right now; they're just kind of all around my flat, one next to the TV, one in the bedroom. So, I'd have to build a cabinet. "

" 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. "

" Harry Potter is awesome. "

" Everyone knows almost everything about me. I make it very clear that I'm cool with people knowing all my personal life through my songs. "

" I've always had really messy hair. "

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

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" I've done some really weird gigs. The ones where no one turned up - they're probably not the interesting ones to talk about. I played some pretty random ones in L.A. I signed to play all-R&B nights or an all-comedy night where I'd be the only white person there. They were fun. "