50 Quotes by Tom Odell

There’s always a part of my brain saying: ‘Stop getting comfortable. Don’t relax.’ Because I find it difficult to write when I’m happy. I have to go out there and get battered up and bruised to write anything. I have to feel something.

I’ve never really not played the piano. I’ve played it since I was six or seven and it’s something I’ve always done – I don’t think I could ever really play anything else, I would be a bit out of it without a piano.

I’m so used to it, I think I’d feel very naked on stage without a piano.

Songs are about just being totally honest and putting those words to music.

I grew up in the suburbs of a small town on the south coast where the only opportunity I ever got to wear anything smart was a funeral, so I had never owned a piece of clothing worth more than £40.