75 Quotes by Passenger

I think Passenger is a bit of an ambiguous thing because in the past, it's been a band, or it's been just me, or a duo or whatever, but I kind of like that as well. I think it's whatever that I'm doing with whoever I'm doing it with!

Busking taught me so much on so many levels, not just about being a musician or writing songs - actually about growing up and being a human!

I try and put myself in other peoples eyes, as I dont feel I've got anything new to say about myself at 23.

I dropped out of college and started gigging around Brighton.

I can headline a festival and then literally, 10 minutes later, be walking around, and nobody notices.

I write so much and I release so much music that I think I'm less precious about that stuff than a lot of people.

We plan tours months in advance, and you leave a few days off here and there where you feel you'll be tired after some shows, but if other opportunities keep coming in, those days get swallowed very quickly, and it's an impossibility to get this stuff right.

I still have the mentality of a street musician, because I was one for five years. Every opportunity that comes my way, I feel like, 'Absolutely, let's do this.' Sometimes, it's to my detriment. But I don't think you become successful by not saying yes to opportunities.

I learned classical guitar as a kid at about 7 or 8 years old. When I was about 14, I started dabbling in songwriting. That's when I got into the folky singer-songwriter style.