40 Quotes by Freya Ridings

So when you're sat there and you're looking at a platinum disc on your wall, for a song you wrote on your own, it's like this is getting crazy, man. It's all crazy.

I was brought up in a bohemian household where my dad plays guitar and my mom plays piano just because they love it.

All of my music teachers gave up on me one by one because I couldn't read music.

I'm obsessed with American talk shows.

Me and my mom were just watching the charts like, 'Why isn't it stopping?' And now I've got a platinum disc in my bedroom.

At school I was really heavily dyslexic, so I really struggled academically with reading and writing.

All my songs are based on personal experience, and 'Lost Without You' came out fully born.

I was in a choir at school and we were part of the BBC Proms back in around 2002.

I remember, a couple of years ago I was playing my first headline show, and it was to 100 people in St Pancras Old Church in London; and me and my mum were like, 'We don't know 100 people, how are we going to sell these tickets?'