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Eliot Sumner Quotes

English - Musician | July 30, 1990 -

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.

People Think Conversation Shy Rude

It's always best to challenge yourself and go to a place out of your comfort zone.

Challenge Best Yourself Comfort Zone

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.

Good Music Me Listening Young Radio

I only wear black. I think it suits me.

Me Black Think Suits Wear Only

I write most of my stuff when I'm on a train or a plane, any mode of transport. I like trains because you hear this motoric rhythm and the scenery is great. You go into your own little world. You don't have to be anywhere else.

Great World Scenery You Train Go

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.

Good Music Relationship Me Feel

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.

Life Parents My Life Self-Respect

I'm very much a creature of habit. I don't like to try to new things.

Habit New Things New Try Things

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.

Work Good Good Things Anything Take

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.

Morning Myself Sleep Writing Song

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.

Saying Speak Find Difficult Repeat

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.

Time Me Attention Bad Netflix Try

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