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" The first record I was really into was the Drifters' 'When My Little Girl Is Smiling.' "

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" When you open your mind up, and you go into a creative state, you can't just switch if off. When you have an idea, a creative impulse, and then you ignore it, it can keep you up when you just want to go to your bed - which is why it's great to have voice recorders on your phone! "

" The success was a difficult thing for me to get my head round. When it gets too much, I just have to disappear - to sort my head. "

" When things get too grand or too big, I struggle to keep up with it all. "

" 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. "

" Sometimes when you get frustrated, your back is against the wall, and you come out fighting and knock out three songs in as many days. "

" I don't know if I've got the capacity for all of the creativity that I want to put out there, which is annoying and frustrating - it's kinda like torture. "

" Sometimes people don't know what is behind the words they use. But an innocent little remark at school can affect you later in life. "

" I get nervous all the time. Both on and off stage. You just hope it turns into adrenaline. "

" The way you react to each challenge forms who you become. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" People make you feel like a bad guy for asking for seven quid for your album, like you are slapping them in the face, when they'll go and pay two grand for a scarf somebody knitted in a sweat shop and stitched a designer label on. "

" Touring can be really tiring. I can get homesick, and I spend a lot of time on my phone. "

" My best mates when I was 19 were all in their 30s. I used to go to all their house parties, and they were crazier than the guys who were 17, 18. They were so much more liberated than the people who were apparently shackle-free. "

" I'm not one to go down that road to say I have some kind of social consciousness. "

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" 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. "

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" When I got my first publishing deal, I felt some responsibility to try to write with the people that they were asking me to write with. "

" When it comes to the business side of it, as much as you might hate it, the reality is that you give the record company a sort of ownership of your songs, so you've got to make sure you're getting everything you can out of it now, because if you're not, then who is? "

" If you're going to call yourself a musician, you have to go out and make music. "