James Bay Quotes
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I'm very close in age to my older brother, and we had a field at the end of the road where we could run around, climb trees, play football.
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I love the intimate, single spotlight, troubadour-y quiet, delicate moments. But I also love Springsteen and screaming and shouting.
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There should be an element of mystique between the fans and the artist. That bit between the stage and the audience. I think that's necessary.
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Growing up, when I was at live shows, I was always hoping someone would come out on stage and say, 'The guitarist is sick and couldn't make it... does anybody know how to play all the songs?' That was always my little dream. It was a massively inspiring thing to be in a space with live shows.
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I loved pop music as a little kid. Things like the Black Eyed Peas. If it had a catchy chorus, I was into it.
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As a singer-songwriter, a solo artist with a guitar, I can only write so many weepie little bedroom songs.
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There was a guitar that my uncle owned and never learnt to play. He sold it to my dad, and when I heard 'Layla', that was the tune that really grabbed me. I said to my dad, 'Wait, there's a guitar, right?'
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I do some solo, acoustic stuff, but I also like plugging in my electric guitar and playing loud with a band.
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I bought a guitar CD-ROM because we had a new computer, but I had no attention span for that. I spent about three hours on it desperate to be brilliant. Eventually, I got some proper lessons.
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Both Springsteen and Michael Jackson, who had these huge productions, could always scale them back down to just a song and a melody. All of that influences me. I also try to be a fictional writer, and sometimes I get close, but the things that resonate the most with me - and with everyone else - is what's real.
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I hope to have a long career, and I don't want to be defined by things that aren't the music.