Thomston Quotes

I have three brothers. Poor Mum; four boys.

I feel like so many people get into that place where creating for someone else is selling out and it is so not about that. It is a stupid, kind of pretentious way of thinking.

I feel like writing music is a great chance to create something that extends beyond yourself.

When I come up with something that I feel like people will connect with that makes me happy because I know that it would be something that would just go beyond me.

I mainly get my inspiration for writing from everyday situations and I come up with hypothetical scenarios and I can usually write a lot about that.

In terms of melody, I am really into great 90's melodies. I feel like there was a great focus on melody in the 90's, like 90's pop-hooks and 90's R&B hooks; I just love them.

I sit at the piano for a couple of hours and tinker away until I get something. I am a nocturnal spirit, like an owl.

The thing is, is that I hate theatre, but it was how I learnt to sing.

The ideal label for me would be this passive being with lots of money, but unfortunately it doesn't really work like that.

I feel like a good song is one that ticks all the boxes, but a great song is one that has this kind of special quality that just resonates with people.

I would love to be friends with Kanye West, because I know he is not a dreadful person, he is a lovely person and I think he is misunderstood.

As long as I can sustain myself and as long as people like what I am doing and are happy to support me to continue, that is success in my eyes.

I am a big nut for kind of weird musicality things. I love key-changes and random tempo things and polyrhythms - music geek.

Sometimes I just get into the zone of the song, but in the outset I feel like I love to cater to people - but not necessarily at the expense of my artistry or anything like that.

It is one of those things that is universally connectable, people can connect to it from everywhere; music is like that universal language.

I think my first song ever was when my cat died. It was this awful, dreadful black cat who was angry and hated everything. Yet I was so upset when it died.

I feel like it is only music where people are like, "You can't do this for other people, you have to do it for yourself." Which I hate.

You don't make a film and then be like I am only going to play it in my house and no-one is going to see it - that is ridiculous.

There is a balance in between where you can still make art, but it does not have to be insular.

Something like film, I guess there are so many elements to it, like the dialogue and what makes sense culturally.

If we all knew how to make that jump from good to great then I think every song would be great.