When I was four, I think I just wanted to make noise. When I was about 10 years old I was given five CDs for my birthday: Pink Floyd's 'Dark side of the Moon,' the Sex Pistols, Prodigy, Jimi Hendrix, and I can't remember the fifth one, but really different kinds of music. That's when I started to grasp it and enjoy it, listening to it. Then I started being in bands at school.

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If something depressing is happening, that's gold. That's the best possible situation you could be in. But if that doesn't happen, you just have to make up stuff - it's more fun because you have more freedom with what you can write about. You can invent characters and situations. It's actually easier.

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I kind of got inspired by [William] Wordsworth and [Samuel Taylor] Coleridge - I went the old traditional way of finding inspiration, I guess.

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I'm still at the age where I'm constantly seeking approval of peo... by Eliot Paulina Sumner

I'm still at the age where I'm constantly seeking approval of people I have respect for.

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If you watch a film without music, there's nothing that you can c... by Eliot Paulina Sumner

If you watch a film without music, there's nothing that you can connect with.

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I take every day as it comes and if I have to be somewhere, I'll... by Eliot Paulina Sumner

I take every day as it comes and if I have to be somewhere, I'll be there.

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People in London are so much more exposed to danger, or bad things. It took me quite a long time to grow up in that environment.

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I think I'm very in touch with nature because I grew up in that surrounding. That's a big part of who I am; I don't know anything different.

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I have a few methods that I use. One of them that kind of works but is a bit a boring is that I lock myself in the studio and I have four hours to work and come up with stuff. If nothing's sticking in four hours, then I can stop.

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I prefer darker things and more minimal stuff. I don't like when... by Eliot Paulina Sumner

I prefer darker things and more minimal stuff. I don't like when people just put words on canvases.

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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.

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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.

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I don't speak anything fluently, but I love picking up languages and I do this Duolingo app. I started when I moved to Sweden, when I was about 19, 20. I really loved the language; it was super melodic and really sexy.

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I'm a terrible sleeper. I get obsessive, repetitive thoughts and... by Eliot Paulina Sumner

I'm a terrible sleeper. I get obsessive, repetitive thoughts and it's horrible.

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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.

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I don't have a lot of self-confidence. I'm getting there. Before I had zero confidence, but it's one of those things you learn and accept.

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