15 Quotes by Jamie Lawson

I worked in a record store, but I realised I didn't want that. I still wanted to pursue a career - or a life - that my songs provided for me.

Because of 'Wasn't Expecting That,' I've had a lot of people come up to me and say how I've written their lives or their grandparents' lives. It means the world to me that I helped in the tiniest way.

R.E.M.'s 'Automatic for the People' - that's probably one of my favourite records - Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' - that's some record - Crowded House's 'Together Alone' - that's brilliant, fantastic record.

I was in a band at school, and almost from the day we started, I started writing songs, just because that seemed what you did.

I think in every industry you need to have a lot of talent; you need to have a lot of drive, but you need a little bit of luck.

There's no real music on television unless it's music television, and then it's expensive videos, which people like me can't do.

The thing with One Direction songs is that you can probably break them all down to an acoustic guitar and vocal.

There's a band in the U.K. called Elbow. They're not that big in the U.S., but I think they're genius.

I've gone periods of maybe four months without writing anything, but it's not a problem. It just means something's building inside you, and it'll build and it'll build, and at some point it'll come out, and it does, and it usually comes out in three or four songs, and you play it that way, really.