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I was born in Glasgow and brought up in a place in between Glasgow and Edinburgh called West Lothian!
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For me, getting my personality across is so important in getting that connection for people that enjoy my music.
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I think if you don't expect anything from the world, you'll have a lovely time.
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I love playing live; that's the main thing. But I hate being in the studio. It's the most boring thing ever.
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I saw Marti Pellow in pantomime in Glasgow one time.
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People like Sam Cooke and Otis Redding - I do not put myself in that category.
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I did my HNC and my HND at college in Motherwell, and the plan I had was to do third year at uni and then to try and get into teaching.
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If you don't feel comfortable talking about really personal things in your music, you shouldn't do it. There's plenty of other things to write about.
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The first time I played in front of a live audience, I realised I wanted to be a musician. I was about four years old and had always liked music.
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Trust me, I do not have an online strategy.
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Having lots of human interaction online and during shows is very important to me.
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If it's just going to go in my body, then I don't want fancy things in my body. I just want regular things in my body.
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I don't think writing open-ended lyrics is necessarily an important part of writing good pop songs.
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A top 100 single was never on the cards for me, really, like in my own head.
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I remember hearing people like Joe Cocker, Fleetwood Mac, and Elvis. My parents were big fans of them, and they were the early seeds. My brother was more into Slipknot, and I still listen to them, too, but it wasn't until I listened to Paolo Nutini that it really clicked.
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My goal was to play 350-capacity rooms in the U.K. and, if I was lucky, 100-capacity rooms in Europe. I just wanted to play music and make money off it.
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I tweeted that I wanted Little Mix's 'Touch' played at my funeral - I think that'd be a great song to send me into the abyss.
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My star will probably continue to rise, and I will start hanging out with Beyonce and Jay-Z and take them to a Toby Carvery.
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My eldest brother is six years older than me.
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I'll be on Tinder until the day I die.
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I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel. I'm just writing songs that I like, and that's where I've always come from.
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For me, there's bands like Frightened Rabbit and The View, and they've all had that Scottish accent. It's just class to hear it.
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I would have been happy being in a wedding band.
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I started off playing my own songs, just because I saw it as a means to an end almost of, 'Right, if you want to play gigs, you have to write your own songs.' I mean, they were absolutely terrible.