Top 30 Rex Orange County Quotes

I won’t be the kind of artist speaking in riddles all the time – it will be lyrics that make sense the moment I say them.

I want to make myself better and get working with some of my biggest influences and make the best music I can.

I want nice songs. I don’t want to worry about where I have to place songs on a playlist. I’m looking to make genuine, great songs and put them together into albums.

I’m not very good at a lot of things that aren’t music. This is the only thing that I love doing, so, like, why wouldn’t I make this my whole life?

I’m afraid of peacocks.

I grew up in a small village on the border of Hampshire and Surrey. When people ask, I tend to say that I’m from Haslemere.

The first person on the BBC that played me was Huw Stephens. I was sat around my laptop with my girlfriend and my family, and it was super-exciting. It felt weird, and it sounded weirder, but it was great.

I find myself without Internet a fair bit in the house I live in in Streatham.

I’m usually just writing lyrics alone in my room, but I’m happy to be producing and writing chords anywhere.

I love things that are really linear and perfect and simple.

I met a lot of label people at the start of doing this music thing, and I just realised soon that it wasn’t much about music but more so about their paycheck at the end of the day.

I’ve never been uncomfortable sharing stuff. It’s almost the opposite. I’ll say the most blunt, brutally honest thing about any situation.

I just want to tell people how I am.

As long as you’re being yourself and putting out what you want to put out, it’ll be the best thing you could do.

I took piano lessons and I wanted to play drums when I was six. Luckily enough, my parents let me have a drum kit in my room – which is kind of crazy.

I write songs, I play instruments, and I produce music that comes out for the world.

I think there’s no limit to ambition, and if you want something, you can make anything happen, so go for it.

Alex Tumay is a recording engineer who works a lot with Young Thug and a load of other rappers, like Quavo. I’m just a fan of his work.

People have cried at a couple of shows. To think that someone could do that for me… Jesus Christ. That’s a crazy sign.

I’m sure there’s some awful video of me singing when I was, like, 13 or 15 at my old school that my dad didn’t take down off YouTube.

The moment you start thinking about what other people and other artists think, you’re going to start writing like other people.

I’m not actually as emotional as everybody thinks. The songs are super personal, but that’s just one side of me, and I guess people just assume I’m some troubled guy who’s constantly sad.

When I fifteen or sixteen and was in London, moving from a small town and now going to a big city, I discovered so much new music. Finding all of that music and being inspired that much all at once, that was the benefit of being from a small place.

‘Apricot Princess’ is like an inside album. You can listen to the album and feel all of those emotions within one night.

I’ve been able to do a lot of cool things. That’s always the dream for any artist.

Really I’ve just gotta be making really great music that I love and not worrying too much about what other people are gonna think about it.

Some people can work on the road, and that’s incredibly impressive… maybe I’m not working myself hard enough.

I think ‘Apricot Princess’ actually came out before ‘Flower Boy.’

I wear my musical heart on my sleeve and show all my influences off. I’m happy for someone to point out that my song sounds like someone else’s.

Anyone can put anything out at any point and make anything by themselves.