I love camping, everything about it – tents, the camping stove, sleeping bags. I’m obsessed with technology, be it synthesizers and speakers or tents and Gore-Tex. Shura Read Quote
I take inspiration from so many places. I think, more than anything, it would have to be the music made by others that I’ve then fallen in love with, whether it’s Madonna, Blood Orange, Fleetwood Mac, or Pink Floyd! Shura Read Quote
I think there’s something antagonistic about bedroom pop. We’re reappropriating pop and saying you don’t have to be an ex-Disney star to make pop music. You can be from Shepherd’s Bush and have spent most of your life listening to the Smiths and still make a pop record. Shura Read Quote
It’s just as important – if not more important – to take the praise with a pinch of salt, just as you do the criticism. Shura Read Quote
When I wasn’t working, I was learning how to use production software on YouTube and making music. Shura Read Quote
What’s It Gonna Be?’ is about having a massive crush on someone, so it made sense to go back where – to school, where it all began. But it was important for us to explore those archetypal characters – The Jock, The Nerd, The Dork, The Popular Kid – and then flip expectations. Shura Read Quote
It was never like I had to go, ‘I am gay.’ Slowly, almost by osmosis, by the way I was behaving, it became obvious and accepted. Shura Read Quote
I’ve tried writing darker, more serious songs, but they don’t go anywhere. Everything revolves around the chorus for me. Shura Read Quote
