British - Musician | February 19, 1976 -
The state of radio is not great. It's like playing the lottery. The chances of hitting are mind boggling slim.
Teddy Thompson
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Most artists never get a chance to be Picasso, but that doesn't mean you would stop painting.
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I came from a folk-family background. Although we weren't really the all-singing, all-dancing-around-the-piano folkies or anything like that, there is that idea of singing and playing with your parents and your family and your cousins.
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I'm never worried about being upstaged. I love to have the best, most individual people come in and see if we hit on something.
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I still do lots of gigs where I'm the support act and people are chatting through my set, but I've got better at grabbing attention. I mean, my parents would play on bills with people like Judas Priest and get booed all the way through. But they stuck it out, got tough.
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