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" 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. "

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" None of us don't have a vice. "

" When I think of Paisley, I think of everything that has shaped my life. "

" It's not about someone making a difference on their own; it's about everybody pulling together to make a difference. "

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" Really, if you've got people who want you to play, you play. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" My father was very encouraging. "

" Love is music, and music is home. "

" I can't speak much Italian. I do go down well over there, but it's frustrating because I can't really speak it. Even if I do talk, they can't understand my accent, but I should try to learn it. "

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

" I've never had anything as formal as vocal lessons. "

" Sometimes it's good to just sing and let the words come out. Whatever comes out is valid because it's what you were thinking. "

" I started to learn some common sense. Even just sort of day-to-day things. I started to cook a little bit more and try to learn to fix things around the house. If something breaks down, rather than call a guy, there's got to be more I can do. "

" I'm not a fan of second-hand or vintage clothes. "

" Charts and learning the politics behind making a record - it's pretty soulless. "

" The people I admire are Tim Buckley and John Martyn - singers that grew into themselves and were honest. John Martyn is one of the great soul singers because soul is not a genre; it's a feeling. "

" 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. "

" I left school just shy of 17: I'd started going into touring and that situation. "

" Music can really help people, help individuals in beautiful ways. "

" 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've learned stuff, and I've forgotten stuff, but what I do know is that it really is all about the fans. "

" 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! "

" I'm at the point of view that I have to look after myself in various levels. "

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

" I was lucky to move around different cultures at an early age and have experience of different lifestyles. "

" 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. "

" 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. "