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- Good Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's always best to challenge yourself and go to a place out of your comfort zone.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I only wear black. I think it suits me.
- Nice
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not a nice thing to have a song written about you.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People always have to have a reference - I think I'll always be in the shadow of my parents.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is about self-expression and representing the times, and I think fashion is the same. It took me a long time to find my own style, both in terms of fashion and music.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
On my fourth or fifth birthday, a guitar was given to me, and I made a new friend. A very loud friend.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wear a lot of black. Like my heart.
- Daughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being Sting's daughter hasn't kicked any doors open for me - he has had absolutely nothing to do with my career. It's all been down to me so far, and that's how I want to keep it.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Self-sufficiency is vitally important to my self-respect. I never wanted to rely on my parents in that way, because I knew that if I got used to it, I'd be reliant all my life.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a kid, I loved to dress up as Ian Dury and run around hitting people with drumsticks. Members of my family, neighbours, friends, kids at school - no one was safe from my rhythm sticks.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
It stresses me out writing songs,; I get really super nervous and speedy. I feel like I'm possessed.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is the only thing that I trust.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was very young when I did 'I Blame Coco,' and I never really recognized that sound as me.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020