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" With social networks these days, everyone needs to know everything all the time. But the problem is, people are so used to short snippets of information that no one has any attention span anymore. I don't, anyway. "

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" I'm an extremist. I don't do things in halves. I don't moderate anything. That can be with work or with good things as well. But often, I take it a bit too far. "

Eliot Sumner

Work

Well

Things

" I like to write from a slightly sad or complicated place. But with a sense of hope and happiness at the same time. "

Eliot Sumner

Hope

Time

" On my fourth or fifth birthday, a guitar was given to me, and I made a new friend. A very loud friend. "

Eliot Sumner

New

Friend

" I was somewhat of a mute at school, so people were quite scared! "

" I don't look into myself too much. I don't think I'm shy so much as a better listener than I am a speaker. I just really don't wish for attention. "

" I think I have a lot of energy, and most of it is quite aggressive energy. But in a positive way, I think. It's like a positive aggression. "

" I'm a bit of a geek when it comes to music. I like studio gear. I'm always looking it up on eBay and seeing what I can afford. "

" I started listening to a lot of Jimi Hendrix and Neil Young when I was 8 or 9 years old - I had siblings that gave me good music instead of the crap that was on the radio in the '90s. "

Eliot Sumner

Music

Radio

" I'm very much a creature of habit. I don't like to try to new things. "

" I sometimes suffer from insomnia, and one of the first times it ever happened, I was like, 'I don't know what to do with myself,' so I started writing a song, and by morning, it was finished. It was about how I couldn't sleep... I was 14. "

" I don't particularly like attention. I like to do things on my own. I like to dress myself. People always ask that at shoots: 'Do you want any help?' That's the weirdest question. "

" It's not a nice thing to have a song written about you. "

" My French is terrible, and my Spanish is even worse. I find Spanish really difficult. They speak so quickly, whereas in German, it's very clear what they're saying. It's easier to repeat. "

" It's difficult to explain exactly how I react to music, but if it makes me feel anything at all, then I'll have some kind of emotional relationship to it. That's what defines good music to me - if it makes me truly feel something. "

Eliot Sumner

Music

Feel

" I try to read, but my attention span is so bad, and ever since Netflix was invented, that's all I do in my spare time, which is really bad, but it's like a chore to read for me. "

" I can only be myself, and if I have to suffer for that, that's okay, because to pretend to be somebody else - I tried that, it's terrible. "

" I like to move around. It suits me. I grew up in Wiltshire on a farm, and that's the only place I call home. "

Eliot Sumner

Suits

Place

" Music is the only thing that I trust. "

" In 2009, I fractured my skull in a freak accident at an L.A. restaurant. I suffered a seizure and was rushed into hospital. I was so out of it that I refused to let them scan my brain. My dad rushed to my bedside and talked me into having the CAT scan - he told me that I might die if I didn't go through with it. "

Eliot Sumner

Hospital

" I make my songs slightly abstract so that people can interpret them their own way. I think that's a lot more special, so you can hear a song and think, 'I feel exactly that way,' even if it wasn't written for that feeling. "

" I knew I wasn't going to write a record as soon as I got signed, because I hadn't had any life experiences. I was still at school, and I wasn't going to write about that. "

" For me, Paul Simon has always been an incredible songwriter, as he writes very complicated songs that sound very simple, and he makes it look so easy when it's not. "

Eliot Sumner

Easy

Complicated

" I didn't come out as gay; I came out as I don't really believe in gender. "

" I was very young when I did 'I Blame Coco,' and I never really recognized that sound as me. "

" I think everyone's got an obstacle in their career that they have to challenge. I think, in a way, that pushes you to prove who you are. "

" I would make documentaries if it was a worthy cause. I have a lot of respect for people who put themselves in harm's way to make people see that something needs to be done. "

" I wear a lot of black. Like my heart. "

" I think, forever, I was trying to figure out maybe... what I am. But I don't think anyone should feel pressured to have any kind of label or tag on them. We should treat everybody the same... Me, I don't like to be put down to a specific thing. We're all human beings. "

" I'm very shy and awkward; I can't have a normal conversation, and then people think I'm being a bit rude, but really I'm not. "

" I picked up the guitar when I was 4, and from then, I could never be bored. "

Eliot Sumner

Guitar

Could