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. Eliot Sumner More Quotes by Eliot Sumner More Quotes From Eliot Sumner 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. Eliot Sumner think shy conversation people In 2009, I fractured my skull in a freak accident at an L.A. restaurant. I suffered a seizure and was rushed into hospital. I was so out of it that I refused to let them scan my brain. My dad rushed to my bedside and talked me into having the CAT scan - he told me that I might die if I didn't go through with it. Eliot Sumner die me dad brain It's always best to challenge yourself and go to a place out of your comfort zone. Eliot Sumner challenge yourself place best 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. Eliot Sumner bad me time attention I wear a lot of black. Like my heart. Eliot Sumner wear like black heart With social networks these days, everyone needs to know everything all the time. But the problem is, people are so used to short snippets of information that no one has any attention span anymore. I don't, anyway. Eliot Sumner short problem time people I don't look into myself too much. I don't think I'm shy so much as a better listener than I am a speaker. I just really don't wish for attention. Eliot Sumner i-am myself look think I'm very much a creature of habit. I don't like to try to new things. Eliot Sumner new try new-things habit 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. Eliot Sumner things good good-things work 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. Eliot Sumner myself sleep song morning 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. Eliot Sumner find saying difficult speak I like to move around. It suits me. I grew up in Wiltshire on a farm, and that's the only place I call home. Eliot Sumner place me suits home I think I have a lot of energy, and most of it is quite aggressive energy. But in a positive way, I think. It's like a positive aggression. Eliot Sumner think energy positive way 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. Eliot Sumner good me music listening I only wear black. I think it suits me. Eliot Sumner think me suits black It's not a nice thing to have a song written about you. Eliot Sumner about you nice song I think, forever, I was trying to figure out maybe... what I am. But I don't think anyone should feel pressured to have any kind of label or tag on them. We should treat everybody the same... Me, I don't like to be put down to a specific thing. We're all human beings. Eliot Sumner treat i-am feel me I was somewhat of a mute at school, so people were quite scared! Eliot Sumner quite scared people school People always have to have a reference - I think I'll always be in the shadow of my parents. Eliot Sumner parents think shadow people Music is about self-expression and representing the times, and I think fashion is the same. It took me a long time to find my own style, both in terms of fashion and music. Eliot Sumner me style music time
