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I don't think about the success that I've had - I've had a lot of success with music - but I always look at it like it's a new day.
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I'm from Hackney, and it's an area that is not so pretty, and we have a different way of expressing ourselves than somebody from uptown that has lots of money.
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I got into music through just being inspired by my brother and sisters. They all sing, play instruments and write - and they're very good at it.
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I'm a musical geek. It's like there's this big, wild universe in my head, and I love to express it.
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As a breed, I think artists are never 100% satisfied with their work, and we will always want that little bit of extra time to put the final gloss on it.
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I remember my brother came home with a bass and played a blues solo on it. I just went insane for days afterwards learning that.
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I'm trying to have some control over my image.
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My brothers came home with country, jazz, everything... it was always very normal to me to make any type of music. It was possible to fuse all the sounds, so it never sounded confusing to me to mix jazz and dubstep.
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When I listen to a Coldplay record, you're gonna hear an indie band, and you know that's what you're gonna get from Coldplay. With myself, I'm not sure it's the same.
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I need to make money, but I don't want to be another guy selling his McDonald's to the pop market.
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Different cultures produce a different 'cool.' And your perception of 'cool' changes depending on where you are.
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My ethos is musical freedom: to create whatever I want.
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When I was younger, I'd be in the studio three days straight to get something right, and my manager would be like, 'Go home!' Even now, I still sleep in the studio sometimes, but I can't do it quite as often. I've got gigs; I can't have my hobo beard! But if you love what you're doing, you can't stop. It's obsessive.
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I don't see categories; I don't see styles - l see them all gelled together. And it was gospel that definitely helped me to do that.
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When I write promotionally, I guess I give away the ones I'm less connected to.
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I used to be addicted to 'Reader's Digest' growing up. I would read the stories about love, and I guess that's where I became a hopeless romantic. I draw from that a lot.
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I've made so many changes to my records because of the way the audience has reacted at the various festivals I've played - I've taken tracks back into the studio, stripped them bare, and built them back up again to create something entirely different.
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You can't go up to girls and start talking about minor 7ths and expect to pull. It's not going to work.
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Everyone in my family has been in music - my cousins, my grandmother, my grandfather - so it's quite a big family tree.
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If a transporter could send me from the bed with the dogs watching crappy TV to the stage five minutes before I go on, then immediately back to bed, I would love it.
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'Chandelier' took, like, four minutes to write the chords, then, like, 12-15 minutes to write the lyrics. Probably 10 or 15 minutes to cut the vocals.
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I liked myself much more before I got famous. I was much friendlier and had more energy.
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I don't ever think it's a good idea to try to recreate the success you've had before; it's all about chasing something fresh and new.
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The accolades don't nourish me - being with loved ones and my dogs does.