Occupation: Singer-Songwriter Birth: June 3, 1974
I heard the Bloc Party record Japan before it came out in the UK as they are on the V2 record label. I think it has a great vibe and has great songs.….
I don't have a special place or ritual for writing songs, basically I write songs whenever an idea hits me, in my hotel room, on the road, in the pla….
The culture's changed massively. The kids are different, with the phones and stuff. Even if you like a song, you don't really know who the artists ar….
Our band Stereophonics never wanted to release a couple records and be the biggest band in the world for 10 minutes. We always wanted to stand the te….
Avril Lavigne sold a massive amount of albums and she has to top that with her next release. We have four great albums behind us, and it's not going ….
If you repeat what you did in the last tour, the likelihood is it's not gonna be successful twice. People are nostalgic about a particular record, be….
The song Dakota was first written in Paris. I was doing a promo trip. It was snowing and the hotel room was really cold and boring and for some reaso….
We've got a great bench of songs, and the people have a really good time at our Stereophonics's shows. People are the same all over the world. If we ….
A performance is only as good as the audience you are playing to. A lot of times you feed off of the audience, and we always try to give them all we'….
To maintain a consistency when people come to see the band takes a lot of work; it takes a lot of discipline. I go to the studio every day and sing a….
We didn't really want to be an overnight success as that brings with it its own problems..
It's better for the listener to interpret their own meanings to the music..
The press will naturally come and go as it has done with all artists, from David Bowie to Neil Young to U2..
The story behind every song is individual to itself..
When you are on tour in the UK it takes a few hours to get anywhere. A lot of the time you can have a beer, close your eyes for two minutes, and then….
Big shows are more like events and small shows are more like traditional gigs..
Like all bands, the first two albums are always the ones most written about, and the most covered. When a band gets to their third of fourth album, t….
Revising a screenplay is much more frustrating than revising a song because you have to read through the entire work again while you are changing stu….
It's a completely different way of working when you have your own place for recording. It's like if you were a painter, and you do loads of painting,….
I'm not a betting man..
To remain relevant though, I think making great records is the key..