Quotes from Aldous Harding

I'm focused on my future. I'm ignoring my past, apart from the bits that I draw from to help me focus on my future.

I definitely have a stage persona. I don't walk around scowling at people too often.

I'm just focused on getting to the end of each show and feeling like we've done a good job when we walk off stage. And a perfect show isn't necessarily about making the audience feel good. I know I've done my job well if I've made people feel... interesting. I like to leave them a little stunned.

So, when I was eight or nine my mom's friend gave her a big purple bag full of cassettes and I found Seals and Crofts' 'Summer Breeze'... When I found it I stopped going through the bag because I was like, well, I'm not going to find anything better than this. I just thought it was the most beautiful thing I'd ever heard.

I'm definitely not above wanting to be liked. Because, I mean, that feels less... lonely? But to be honest, because it was never my dream, I live quite a pressure-less existence, y'know. And of course, that's not true, but it's partly true.

Because I'm a nobody, surely it's an interesting thing or a nice thing to see a nobody or just a regular person do things that makes you question your taste and feel things.

The 'Aldous Harding' record isn't easily placed because it wasn't trying to sound like anything. It was quite organic.

That's what I look for in music anyway: I want someone to confuse me to the point where I look inwards rather than at what they're doing.

I made a commitment to myself that I'd stick at this and not let weakness in too quickly, that I'd do the best shows I could and make the best songs I can make.

I find that comforting and an equally purposeful way to think, that there's lots of ways to flex both your strengths and your weaknesses.

My music's doing things, out there in the world, and that's a very positive feeling, you know? I haven't had a job I've been this good at or this excited about since I was a dog groomer!

One of my least favourite gigs was a festival. There weren't many people there and they were all talking.

If you want to do this, you've got to last. You've got to be well enough to carry your ideas. I'm not saying I've got great ideas, but if I do I need to be able to deliver them.

I want to be well enough to enjoy the things I've made.

It was definitely a really lovely thing for me, doing 'Jools.'

I write songs for the same reasons most artists write songs -because I have to, whatever that means. Because I want to talk about myself or have demos that need to be sent off. I like doing it. It's my job and I like doing it. For the most part, it's pretty easy for me.

It's funny. I change depending on what I'm around, and who I'm around. I've always been like that.

Designer' is meant to mean whatever it means.

It's not a secret that I'm, like, 12 different people rolled into one. Like a lot of people are.

I don't have necessarily good taste. I have some really good taste and I have some really awful taste. I don't see the difference, because when you use them together they can work.

It's been a very strong force for me over the years. I don't know exactly why. For some people, fear can be a very useful thing. They can use it to recognise there's something missing, and heal themselves. But fear can also destroy some people. I think I'm the first type of person. I'm pretty anxious, always thinking 'what if?' about the bad stuff.

We've played quite a few festivals now. We can take care of it, no matter where we are.

There are very few things in the world that make me feel a feeling, really.

I knew what I liked, but I was never really obsessed with filling my life with music.