” When you get to your teenage years, you want to find something that you identify with. It’s almost a slight rebellion, you don’t want to listen to what your parents listen to anymore, you want to find your own music. That, for me, was hearing the Fugees for the first time. “
” The insomnia just perpetuates. I have one bad night, then I get it in my head that I can’t sleep. I’ve been trying these meditation tapes – there are a couple on Spotify – and they’re meant to calm you. But they don’t seem to work. “
” It’s a weird thing, beards now. I’ll be in east London, and lads come up to me: ‘Yo man, what beard oil do you use?’ I’m like, ‘I don’t know what you’re talking about.’ It’s just laziness. “
” My mum always wanted to send me to a music school, but we didn’t really have the money. So even now, I’m not a technically good singer. If you asked me to sing a particular harmony, I wouldn’t know how. “
” At first, I didn’t focus that much on the Internet. I was more, ‘I’m going to write songs,’ and I’d have sung that song out in a club, pub, or a jam session or whatever 10 times before I recorded it. We live in an Internet age, and if you don’t embrace it, you get left behind a bit. “
” I think there’s an attitude these days that you can go straight from a studio to the stage, and it isn’t really like that. But playing live was the most important thing for me at the start because whenever I recorded something, it didn’t sound right, I didn’t like how my voice sounded. It was just raw. “
” Nobody told me how to sing, so I just thought I’d try and sing like Howlin’ Wolf. It was like a bark, there was melody to it – but I would go off a bit and I wouldn’t stick AutoTune on it or anything to make it in key. Even now, I couldn’t tell you about harmonies. I couldn’t tell about what notes I’m singing because nobody taught me to sing. “
” I do have a problem with someone that just wants a picture. People who ask for a selfie and don’t even say hello to you, it’s a weird thing that’s happened in the last few years. “
” People think it’s not necessary to talk to another human being, and that’s the part of it that I don’t like. Some people will go up and want to talk to you about the music, which is cool, they’re enthusiastic about the songs and know stuff about it, or, ‘I really like your music. Nice to meet you. “
” I don’t really like to stand in one spot. People say that you have your lane or a certain type of music. I don’t believe that. You choose your own lane, whichever one you want, then the people decide whether it’s good or not. “
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