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I wish I was a prolific writing wondrous boy genius - I wish I was Stevie Wonder - but I wasn't. I was me. I wrote terrible songs about girls I was head-over-heels about. As soon as a pretty girl looks at me, that's it - I'm in love, and I should probably write a song about it!

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Love, Wondrous, Prolific, Stevie

The most difficult thing for me as an artist, as a creator of music, is lyrics. But everything else, I just do it.

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Artist, Difficult, Creator, Most Difficult Thing

With the BBC Sound list, it's just humbling even being put aside those other musicians - people like Alicia Kava, who I am a huge fan of.

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Other, Like, BBC, Humbling

I didn't do myself any favours. I would be resentful of my own ideas even before I'd said them out loud. But music was always the most consistent and peaceful thing for me. So I taught myself to be my harshest critic rather than just a mean voice in the back of my head.

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Voice, Rather, Before, Resentful

Genre hopping is something I intend to do, and I intend to do it forever and ever because I think genres are boring.

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Think, Something, I Think, Intend

I watch cartoons a lot. I'm a big 'Rick and Morty' and 'South Park' fan.

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Big, Lot, South Park, Rick

I remember listening to 'Songs In The Key Of Life' as a kid. Stevie Wonder has an ability to manipulate pop into something globally obtainable. Anyone can listen and enjoy it because there's something for everyone. That woke me up to the possibilities of pop music.

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Possibilities, I Remember, Key

I would sing around the house, and I would always play on things just because instruments were always there, but I didn't show any genius as a child. I wasn't a prodigy or anything like that.

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Play, Always, Like, Prodigy

I've been naturally quick at learning things, and I learn by doing things, so if I sit beside someone who is actively doing something, I look at how they do it and absorb the way in which they do something and find my own comfortable way of reimagining that, or using certain techniques in my own way.

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Doing, Been, Quick, Actively

It's amazing to be nominated for the Brits' Critics' Choice Award 2016. It's such a significant award that highlights the importance of new music, so it's a genuine honour to have been nominated alongside some other incredible new acts from the U.K.

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Some, Been, Brits, Highlights

I don't think there's any such thing as perfection. But I'm a perfectionist. I don't believe in the idea of perfection, but I will strive to achieve it.

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Think, Will, Idea, Perfection

I'm ultimately a perfectionist who doesn't believe in perfection.

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Believe, Perfectionist, Perfection

Who am I to sit here and say I'm going to change the face of music?

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Music, Face, Here, Who Am I

I was put through piano lessons when I was a kid. I say 'put through' because it was fun and I loved it, and it's been beneficial now, but it was difficult because, although I can read music, I much prefer just playing and improvising and at least finding my own way to play an instrument.

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Play, Through, Been, Improvising

I was studying primary school education. I was going to be a teacher. I was going to get my teaching qualification and have that as my safety net and then tackle the music industry.

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Education, Studying, Going, Primary

I wanted to be a teacher because that is all I knew. It was a great course on primary school education, in which I could specialise in music, but I ended up dropping out after I was honest with myself about what I really wanted to do with my life.

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Education, My Life, About, Primary

I am only interested in celebrating music.

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Music, I Am, Only, Celebrating

The most important thing for me is to have as much control over what's going on in front of me as I possibly can, so because of that, I don't play to a click track, and I don't have anything on the grid. Everything is triggered by me. Everything is played by me. Everything is within my control.

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Play, Important Thing, Possibly

My mum would play Stevie Wonder around the house, and I remember just loving the songs and feeling so blown away by how much was going on.

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Play, I Remember, Stevie, Blown Away

I will have a playlist ready that I'll play out to the audience before I walk on stage, and I'll listen to that same playlist in the room, so by the time I walk on stage, I'm in the same frame of mind the audience is.

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Mind, Play, By The Time, Frame

For me, creating music is just as relaxing as sitting down and doing nothing.

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Music, Doing, Relaxing, Sitting

The reason I'm scared of flying is because I'm not in charge. Being so far out of control terrifies me.

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Control, Reason, Charge, Scared

I wanted to create a body of work that I was proud of. It's come from honesty and integrity, without forcing anything from myself, the ideas had to come instinctively and organically. Whether that translates to people in that way, it's kind of out of my hands now.

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Body, Hands, Had, Organically

Lyrics are really, really hard, I think, or at least they're really hard for me. Some people can channel lyrics faster. I find them very hard to find, so because of it, they take me a long time, and I really think about them.

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Some, I Think, Very, Lyrics

I spent 19, 20 years of my life being terrified about what I looked like. I was a ginger white kid.

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My Life, Terrified, Looked, Ginger

I was a huge pop music fan as a kid, but the bands I was into were like 5ive and N-Sync. It was like watching a cartoon. There was so much going on, and the production was so well mixed. Stevie Wonder was able to give you those melodies and production but back it up with such creative integrity and real musicianship and artistry.

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Melodies, Stevie Wonder, Musicianship

I had a passion and a soul in me that was screaming to be heard, and I had to let them out in as honest and challenging a way as I could.

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Soul, Could, Had, Screaming

There's a stigma attached to 'pop music,' like it's a taboo word. It used to make my skin crawl when people said it, and I'd say, 'I'm not a pop star! I want to be a respected musician!' But I think people have changed the way they think about it.

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Skin, I Think, Stigma, Crawl

Festivals are the best because you can't control anything, and for a control freak like me, that's a wonderful experience.

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Best, Festivals, Like, Control Freak

I believe that musical instruments are created because they are supposed to be played. There's not an instrument that's been designed to not be playable - it kind of defeats the point.

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Been, Musical, Created, Designed

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