English - Musician | August 7, 1996 -
I'd rather go on stage and talk or do public speaking than sing. Singing is very scary. It's very exposing.
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Sometimes before I go on stage, I think about how people can be so judgmental and forget they're the ones who bought your album; they're the ones that are singing along.
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I think I might have played a song on piano or guitar in a school talent show. I went to an all girls school, so there were always little things going on, but it wasn't really until I was 17 that I did a proper performance. My first big one was Glastonbury, before I was signed.
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I prefer to listen to a lot of male singers rather than females. Sometimes I find it a bit too shrill. I even find my own voice a bit too high.
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My whole career will be about sad things. Happy songs about nightclubs and shots? That's not me.
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Sometimes I worry I've said too much. But it's easier to write about things that are fresh in your mind.
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Collaborating on lyrics has never worked for me.
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I'm more than just the face at the front of a band.
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The reason I can play loads of instruments is because I kept giving up and trying another one.
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I'm a very creative person, but that side of me was suppressed because I was academic. I was depressed at school, and I didn't know why.
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I don't feel like I have to prove a point and say that I love the kind of music that I make.
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I think my songs serve a purpose in a very therapeutic way to do with relationships, very different to do with my opinions on world affairs.
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