I think music moves me more than other people. I can hear a song and it can bring me to tears. It doesn't happen the whole time, but I find songwriting - songs - very, very moving. I always have and I don't think it's fading. Tom Odell More Quotes by Tom Odell More Quotes From Tom Odell I just love to play music. I enjoy it more than anything. I enjoy it more than drinking with my friends in the pub. I'd much prefer to be playing live and playing the piano - playing is one of the most enjoyable things I do and I live for it. So it's very rare that I'd not be up for it. I'm very lucky to have something that I love so much; I don't know what I'd do without it. Tom Odell enjoy lucky drinking Playing live is very exhausting, which is partly why I feel so tired today. But I've always wanted to live like that. I'd rather feel the experience than to be sort of feeling something in between and dull and numb. I love feeling the highs and the lows, it makes life far more exciting. Tom Odell tired feelings today When you create stuff, you're always going to be progressing and where you're at a year down the line, as the creator, it's always going to feel immature. You're going to notice the flaws and the things that you've learned in that year aren't going to be there. So, I think it's important to see stuff as a capture of time - that's what I was doing at that time - and not be ashamed of it. That's how I try to approach music. Tom Odell immature progress thinking I think particularly in music, popularity os a very fickle thing. You're only as good as your last song. Tom Odell last-song song thinking I don't think I'll ever be able to grow a beard. Tom Odell ever grow think beard I'm not saying you have to be totally despondent or anything, but... in New York, it's cold sometimes; it rains sometimes; even if everything in your life is great, bad weather can set the mood. You can write songs in New York because it's not always perfect. To write a good song, things can't be perfect. Tom Odell good you song life Music is shared. It's a shared feeling; that's what music is all about. When you listen to a song with someone else, it becomes more than just a song. It defines relationships. Tom Odell feeling you music song I genuinely find the most meaningful thing I do is to make music, but also to absorb some sort of creativity. Tom Odell find some creativity music The first song I ever wrote was when I was 12, and it had, like, four lines in it. You progress and get better. Tom Odell better you progress song Singing didn't really come naturally to me, I don't think. I had to really work at it. I just kept singing. I never was really worried about it, though, because I was writing songs, and that was the most important thing to me. Tom Odell think me singing work When I'm at home, I like to put records on, but because I travel a lot, I listen to a lot of music on my iPhone. Tom Odell iphone music home travel I don't really have loads of friends - three or four who are close. The thing that I love the most is playing with my band, and with everything else I feel kind of uncomfortable. I don't think I'm socially awkward. I just prefer being behind a piano. Tom Odell feel think friends love I've only ever had one doubt about music. It came when I was 11. I hated playing scales. Tom Odell playing only music doubt Everyone in England knows about Burberry, and it kind of represents a standard of being well-dressed... But the nice thing is, they have a lot of clothes, so I still feel like myself whenever I'm wearing their clothes. Tom Odell feel myself clothes nice Every musician writes about past relationships. And other than that, I can promise you, I have very little in common with Taylor Swift. Tom Odell relationships you i-can past My aspirations aren't to sell millions of records, but to write really good songs. Tom Odell songs write sell good When I'm in London, it feels like I am that character who is 'Tom Odell.' Tom Odell i-am like london character I wouldn't mind being the male Adele. She came along, and people were like, 'Damn, we haven't heard anyone this real for years.' Tom Odell damn real mind people The dominant male is history. Could you see a male Lady Gaga? The closest we've got is Justin Bieber, who'd be locked up if he tried the stuff Gaga gets away with. Women are the only rock stars now. Adele is brutally honest. I want to be like her. Tom Odell you women stars history There are a lot of women at my gigs. The first show I headlined was a sea of women, which I can't complain about. I'm pleased these 18-year-old girls like my music. Tom Odell like women music sea
