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" Politicians have an arrogance that I just do not understand. I've seen more constructive debates in high school. "

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" As a kid, I loved to sing along to the Drifters and Otis Redding. "

" You've got to make sure that you don't have an airbrushed picture making you look like a 15-year-old cherub when your lyrics suggest otherwise. "

" A lot of people have been very dismissive of me. I'm hardly the darling of the NME. It used to get me down a bit, but you reach a point where you can laugh it off. "

" I don't want to slip into Johnny Borrell mode. I don't want to be singing that there's nothing on TV, nothing on the radio. "

" I went through a phase of buying a lot of masks, as anyone who has been to a party at the house will testify. "

" I like to record something pretty much as soon as I have an idea for a song, but I'm on so many buses, I have to record on my mobile. "

" You should have something to say, an idea you want to get out, and if you don't, just get out of the way, 'cause there's so many great musicians and writers that are in the queue. "

" I learned to sing from my mum and dad's record collection. "

" When you're waking up every day, and it's all about you, I don't consider that to be a way to live your life if you can help it. I think people who know me know that I find time to enjoy myself and not take life - or myself - too seriously at all. "

" With the first album, there was a lot of angst. I was very naive. I thought I was on top of the whole thing, but I really didn't know what I was getting into. "

" I am not steeped in all that angst. I'm never going to be Sid Vicious. "

" My songwriting... it's almost like a kind of self-therapy. "

" My inspiration for songs is just everyday life. I just write down words about things that have happened to me, people I've met. "

" You don't want to go and make something, then go out and do shows, if you're not really into it. You don't want to go out there and make people feel like you're grudging playing them a song. That's a disturbing thought. "

" I think it was definitely a love for the four- or five-part vocal male harmony groups that really took me away. I'd always try and be, like, the fifth Drifter; I'd always try and find another harmony that wasn't there. "

" As I'm getting older, I work out what I want and what I need. And I just need to go home and see the people I love and write. "

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" I'm neither here nor there about this Lady Gaga, but she's clearly very passionate about her poker face. "

" A lot of places think that bigger is better. It's like consumerism is taking everything over. "

" The more I watch politicians in action, it just makes me angry. "

" I've met such amazing people in their 40s, in their 60s, 70s, and they completely bely their age on paper. "

" When you've displayed a weakness, you've displayed something a person can grab a hold of and attack you there. If you're not ashamed of it, who can make you feel bad about it? Nobody. If you make a mistake, at least you get to see them, identify them, acknowledge them and hopefully remedy them. "