Where I grew up, there was only one CD shop, and I didn’t really like school, so we’d register, then bunk off, and we would be round my mate’s house making drum-and-bass mix tapes. Rag'n'Bone Man Read Quote
People have got no attention span these days with music – I come from the time where I bought the whole album and listened to it back to back. Rag'n'Bone Man Read Quote
I’ve been writing a lot more folky, country type stuff. One of the reasons I wanted to write in the first place was because of Darrell Scott. Rag'n'Bone Man Read Quote
At first, I didn’t focus that much on the Internet. I was more, ‘I’m going to write songs,’ and I’d have sung that song out in a club, pub, or a jam session or whatever 10 times before I recorded it. We live in an Internet age, and if you don’t embrace it, you get left behind a bit. Rag'n'Bone Man Read Quote
I think there’s an attitude these days that you can go straight from a studio to the stage, and it isn’t really like that. But playing live was the most important thing for me at the start because whenever I recorded something, it didn’t sound right; I didn’t like how my voice sounded. It was just raw. Rag'n'Bone Man Read Quote
People think it’s not necessary to talk to another human being, and that’s the part of it that I don’t like. Some people will go up and want to talk to you about the music, which is cool; they’re enthusiastic about the songs and know stuff about it, or, ‘I really like your music. Nice to meet you.’ Rag'n'Bone Man Read Quote
I wanted to write songs from the ground up, I wanted to sit at a piano and build around that. But I still have a lot of love for hip-hop, so I want to do more collaborations in that sense. Rag'n'Bone Man Read Quote
I don’t really like to stand in one spot. People say that you have your lane or a certain type of music. I don’t believe that. You choose your own lane, whichever one you want, then the people decide whether it’s good or not. Rag'n'Bone Man Read Quote
