John Newman Quotes

No one can ever take my job away from me. I can always draw as long as I have a piece of paper and a pencil or paints.

Before this I tended to paint figures and put them in an environment. Now I paint an environment to put figures in. It's a subtle difference, but it is a difference. It's something I did naturally.

I was a big rugby player and into my motocross, so I lost loads of weight and a rumor went around the town that I had picked up a drug addiction!

Reports in matters of this world are many, and our resources of mind for the discrimination of them very insufficient

American liberty is premised on the accountability of free men and women for what they have done, not for what they may do.

Living movements do not come out of committees.

People keep comparing me to people, and I just ignore it.

I don't want to date celebrities, I don't want to roll out of clubs absolutely steaming, make an idiot out of myself. I want to concentrate on my music career.

If I'm not busy I start twiddling my thumbs.

Doctors can predict these things [tumors] just as long as they get access to people.

Now I've got that [life is a journey not a destination] tattooed on my arm because it just reminds me of that time, and I think it's just an amazing quote.

I went and studied music in Leeds. It really woke me up socially, to stop being so naïve and narrow-minded.

I'm still quite small-minded and small-town, and people look at me like, "You're too famous to remember me." I want to give them a tap on the shoulder and thank them.

I do like expressing how I feel about things in my music.

I'm from a little town called Settle in North Yorkshire, so it's amazing that I get to travel everyday and I get to see such crazy sh*t everyday.

I don't get pictures taken of me when I leave clubs.

All good art is abstract.

Don’t be afraid of making mistakes or failing. You never really fail anyway unless you actually give up and quit!