59 Quotes by Jade Bird

I really like a lot of American country stuff, so my music has that influence, but I don't like to be set within a genre. It feels very limiting.

I've often been told that if music doesn't work out I could be a comedian.

My grandma divorced my granddad and became a finance manager to get her own house, and my mum worked very hard to make sure we could have our own space.

There's quite a stigma attached to country music in the UK - but I kind of enjoy that.

My mum brought me up by herself, pretty much. She had me at the age of 20, and my grandmother was a single mother, too, for most of her life.

Songwriters such as Alanis Morissette write about the constant balance of contradictions, and that's something I adhere to in my life and work.

I'd always been a kid that loved literature, reading, writing - anything to do with words - so music was just a path.

I see magic in conversation and words, and music is purely speaking to others, isn't it?

I think I'm eclectic and I'm never afraid to not know an artist or a band or an album because I want to hear it.