My tumour is a benign pituitary tumour, in the pituitary gland - which is the main hormone centre of the body. It's in the centre of the brain. (Fun fact, [Rene] Descartes thought our consciousness was to be found in the pituitary gland.) And the thing is, there aren't really many symptoms that show until it's too late.

John Newman

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No one can ever take my job away from me. I can always draw as long as I have a piece of paper and a pencil or paints.

John Newman

drawing jobs long

Reports in matters of this world are many, and our resources of mind for the discrimination of them very insufficient

John Newman

matter mind world

I went and studied music in Leeds. It really woke me up socially, to stop being so naïve and narrow-minded.

John Newman

narrow-minded leeds

There are a lot of things going on in politics at the moment which means that people can't concentrate on politicians' personalities and the characters of those who are actually running this country. This can overcome what politics is about.

John Newman

running character country

I feel like awareness needs to grow. It's becoming a very common thing. I think we have a very strong NHS and healthcare system that needs more support through all this political nonsense that we're going through.

John Newman

nhs strong thinking

Now I've got that [life is a journey not a destination] tattooed on my arm because it just reminds me of that time, and I think it's just an amazing quote.

John Newman

arms journey thinking

If I'm not busy I start twiddling my thumbs.

John Newman

thumbs ifs busy

I'm still quite small-minded and small-town, and people look at me like, "You're too famous to remember me." I want to give them a tap on the shoulder and thank them.

John Newman

giving people looks

The only thing my mum could afford growing up was to be able to look after me and my brother so the only thing that I wanted when I grew up was to be able to look after my mum. So when I could, I bought her a house and then I got her a car as well and I got her a little air freshener to put in her car and on it, it said "life is a journey not a destination."

John Newman

growing-up brother journey

I think positivity also brings determination and wanting to explore more and wanting to do more with your life. Because if you come to that point of having to think about your life in that way you don't want it to be negative.

John Newman

positivity determination thinking

I don't want to date celebrities, I don't want to roll out of clubs absolutely steaming, make an idiot out of myself. I want to concentrate on my music career.

John Newman

clubs careers want

People keep comparing me to people, and I just ignore it.

John Newman

compare people

Doctors can predict these things [tumors] just as long as they get access to people.

John Newman

doctors long people

Living movements do not come out of committees.

John Newman

committees movement

American liberty is premised on the accountability of free men and women for what they have done, not for what they may do.

John Newman

accountability liberty men

We need to hold onto that so that people can be told in the right way that they're going through these things [like tumors] early instead of discovering them late. Discovering important health news too late happens far too much.

John Newman

important people needs

I'm from a little town called Settle in North Yorkshire, so it's amazing that I get to travel everyday and I get to see such crazy sh*t everyday.

John Newman

yorkshire everyday crazy

I do like expressing how I feel about things in my music.

John Newman

feels

I don't get pictures taken of me when I leave clubs.

John Newman

picture-taken clubs taken

I was a big rugby player and into my motocross, so I lost loads of weight and a rumor went around the town that I had picked up a drug addiction!

John Newman

addiction drug player