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It's great to be part of the whole Ibiza Rocks vibe. Ibiza's always had a big gap when it comes to bands with guitars so it's great to be included really.
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In England, it's usually cold. So surfing is more of an adventure where you're floating around in a big, dark, stormy sea rather than the California notion of girls in bikinis on beaches. It's really going into the fray. I like it because it gives you the extra time and space you need to think.
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John Martyn is my biggest hero. My mom got me into his music when I was a kid. I've looked up to him more than anyone as a songwriter. And Bert Jansch is one of the pillars of acoustic music, the holy grail.
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In the countryside, you're always hearing sheep, birds, tractors and farm equipment.
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I studied to be a journalist, but I don't think I would have made a very good one. I don't have the work ethic.
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In my late teens, I fell out of love with music - you know how kids are, when you're encouraged to do something, you rebel. But then I picked it back up again.
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I went around driving myself to gigs everywhere, and eventually, people just kept coming back.
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I like slightly obscure places, where the waves may not be world class, but you can tie some culture in with your surf trip.
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Surfing and music have always been two separate sides of my life. I'm quite a fun-loving person most of the time, but I feel like I always get the serious side out when I'm playing music, and then I have fun the rest of the time when I get in the sea.
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I never understood how one could write a whole book: It is so technically challenging, and it's incredible the way writers put entire worlds inside of them on such a large scale. I tend to have that same feeling when I listen to music - it daunts me and makes me feel quite unsettled listening to so much talent and ambition.
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I think there are definitely positives when you go back to the familiar, because it's something you don't have to think about when you know the place. But sometimes on the other hand, it can be quite unchallenging.
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That's the biggest thing we're excited about: to be in America and have shows sell out is an incredible thing.
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I have problems with guitars, I hammer away at it sometimes and I also do little intimate picks, I'm always looking at new guitars and little extra tweaks and stuff, I like to mix it up a bit.
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I got thrust a guitar by my mum as a little kid and always played it. I sort of fell in and out of love with it, there were times when I hated it when I was ten and was forced to go to lessons.
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I think the most frustrating thing is when people... sometimes people are a bit lazy and they don't listen to something, and they'll just say you sound like something else and it's quite clear that you don't, I think that's frustrating.
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Women and their impact, good and bad. It makes men write songs. I write about relationships, basically.
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I've always thought I crossed this really weird gap between the pop world and some slightly more left-field singer-songwriter music, but everyone's always comparing me with Ed Sheeran. It's frustrating.
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A live show is a room full of sound and people and now you have technology where people can film it and take it away and all that is lost afterwards but they have a souvenir.
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I'm not prolific, I go over stuff and it goes for me and sometimes against me. I'm annoyed that I don't do enough stuff off-the-cuff. It's a difficult thing to do something quickly and stand behind it.
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There was no grand scheme, no big push, there are things I would have done differently now but you make decisions on the hop and it takes you where you are.
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We played a lot of live shows, we just kept plugging away and playing music and people kept coming back.
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I need some time and space to make sure I'm on the right track with myself and playing music I want to play.
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The recording sessions for 'Noonday Dream' were so varied and over quite a period of time.
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We were selling out venues, not just in London but also major cities in France and Germany before labels had even noticed what we were doing.
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There's force-feeding people synthesised music, then there's a skill in technically being able to play an instrument, even if that is some electronic pad.
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I'm one of those artists who doesn't really believe in fame. You can be a normal person these days, you don't need celebrity appeal.
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We've played all sorts of weird and wonderful places. You do all kinds of venues from heavy metal places in Germany to big ornate churches, and everything in between.
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A lot of the bars are really nice to me now because they've heard me on the radio.
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