Coming from the U.K., you realize how quiet England is, and as soon as you get to America, it's really big and brash and loud out here, and South by Southwest was the epitome of that.

The world is a very noisy place and so I don't need to shout about things. There are so many people shouting and a lot of people get lost in it.

I am really opinionated when I want to be but I'm just not loud.

People may say I'm difficult but I'm not. I'm a bit shy but it's funny how I can sing in front of an audience and get up on a stage.

I can be among the general public and next to me is a big picture of my face, but no one notices apart from my friends.

I've never been much of a city person, but I love going to places for a few days and being able to experience them.

It's a privilege to be from England and be able to come over to America and have people listening to music and really enjoying it.

It's amazing how English music manages to travel to America and obviously, American music in the U.K. is massive.

I kind of feel that as soon as you've played a song to one other person, then it's something you share together.

The kind of fans I have are those who allow the songs to be part of their lives; indeed, it's as if the songs aren't mine anymore.

We adapt very quickly to things, don't we?

If you had told me many years ago that I'd have been headlining Longitude, or festivals like it, I would have thought it was unimaginable.

The only thing you can worry about is pleasing yourself and that's probably more impossible than pleasing other people.

I don't think I've ever been particularly careerist about music.

I think New York City is a lot more European than the rest of America; it's much easier for an English person to wrap their head around it.

New York is one of my favorite places in the world, Brooklyn especially.

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.

Without a doubt, Ibiza is one of my favourite places on the planet.

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.

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.

In the countryside, you're always hearing sheep, birds, tractors and farm equipment.

Loud sounds are everywhere.

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.

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.