Top 20 Gabrielle Aplin Quotes

I have hundreds and hundreds of people from Brazil, Chile, Columbia and Argentina, every day, buying my music and telling me about it online.

I just write songs and hope that they do well. I’m sure there is some pressure from someone at the label, but I’d rather keep away from it.

YouTube was really good for building a kind of core, loyal fanbase. I didn’t want to be a YouTube artist as such. I mean, there are people who are able to release albums and live off YouTube, but I felt – and not in an arrogant way – that I could be commercial and credible if I really put my mind to it.

I still listen to a lot of the classics from Bob Dylan and John Martin, but I love electronic music as well. I’m a big fan of an Australian DJ and producer called Flume, who I think is incredible. He should be more successful in the U.K.!

For a lot of pop performers, fame and celebrity is part of the job. But for singer-songwriters, no one really cares.

I’d love to write for One Direction. I think they’ve done incredibly well.

I’ve grown up with a piano in the house, and that’s where I started to be able to learn things by ear. Guitar kind of happened, and I was using it just for writing at first. Then, I was writing so much that I began to realise that I knew how to play, and that’s when I started getting nerdy about it.

I grew up listening to Nick Drake. Without him, I would not write music – and ‘Pink Moon’ is my favourite LP.

Labels fund things and have resources for you to use. But just because you sign doesn’t mean you sign yourself away so they can then tell you what to do. You need to have a plan yourself before they do.

I love the crowds at festivals because they’re so chilled out.

I love pop music. I love drum and bass, Calvin Harris, all these electronic things, but it’s nice to have something organic as well.

I’m quite annoying and can’t imagine what it would be like living with me 24/7.

I write songs, and I sing them. I never formulated a plan; I can’t tell anyone else how to do this. But it feels right, so I just kind of enjoy it and get on with it.

I wouldn’t just lay my voice on anything. But I’d love to do a collaboration, like a Calvin Harris track, for example.

I’m really busy, but I don’t feel like I’m missing out on anything.

I am never without my lyric book. If anything inspirational happens, I have it there so nothing’s forgotten.

Before I’d even started doing music or having opportunities with my own music, I was studying production and business and stuff anyway. I knew there were so many jobs within the music industry – songwriting or session playing or working at a label – and I was really interested in how it all works.

I’m really into fashion, but I don’t really spend that much on clothes. I manage to find everything I want at a good price.

I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting.

I love the folk-rock of the Seventies and the pop of the Eighties.