109 Quotes by Ben Howard

It's the bane of my life and my existence, people telling me to be a little more succinct with what I write.

There was no grand scheme, no big push, there are things I would have done differently now but you make decisions on the hop and it takes you where you are.

I listen to other people's stuff and, more and more, you realise how much is layered and how many different guitar parts there are.

I'm not prolific, I go over stuff and it goes for me and sometimes against me. I'm annoyed that I don't do enough stuff off-the-cuff. It's a difficult thing to do something quickly and stand behind it.

When you're playing guitar, it's the tiny little nuances that make the difference. For me, obviously, tunings is a huge one.

I don't know if I'm particularly shy.

A live show is a room full of sound and people and now you have technology where people can film it and take it away and all that is lost afterwards but they have a souvenir.

I'm not like a total recluse who lives in the woods or anything.

I think as soon as you start believing you're doing something superior to other people, then you start losing the plot.