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Aldous Harding, is quoted 60 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Festival, Actually, Well Enough and Hilarious.

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I'm actually hilarious.

I tend to overdo things.

Wales is a lot like New Zealand.

I spend... too much time... in my own head.

Designer' is meant to mean whatever it means.

My family used to put on a small folk festival.

You know, we've had some pretty rough festival stages.

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've got a bad rap for not being more charismatic between songs.

Just like using an instrument, a song calls for different things.

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

I don't need to hide behind anything because I'm more comfortable with myself.

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

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

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

I like 'The Simpsons' like everybody else. But yeah - people think I'll always be super intense.

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

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

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

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.

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

In my mind, I was never going to have the things I wanted if I played music for a living, unless I became a rock star.

When I discovered metaphor and what it meant, I got really excited. That was what really pushed me through into music.

I'm actually quite a shy person and it's becoming clearer to me. Sometimes I would like to disappear, maybe only for an hour.

I'm one of those people who's always changing. There's nothing wrong with it but it means I am a hard person to hold onto, I guess.

I think about it as not so much 'I need to get it out of me,' it's not that my thoughts are poison, I just want to write good music.

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.

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.

That was the biggest compliment that I can receive - making somebody wonder whether they have the problem, rather than what my problem is.

I've always been, like a lot of people, driven by fear. Always focusing on the fire on the rope, as opposed to what the rope is coming from.

I'm So Sorry' is probably one of my favorite songs that I've written... I wrote it very quickly and confidently. And then I didn't question it.

I really do feel like an unremarkable person trying really hard, openly, to do something interesting and to make something of value and pleasure.

If people say to me, 'So, what were you doing in Dubai in that song?' or they spend ages comparing me to some other singer, I just shut down, I guess.

I believe in myself enough to not get hung up on what other people are doing, or what I should be writing, or the nature of how I'm writing. I'm just able.

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.

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.

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 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.

We all want the same thing, love and acceptance. That's pretty much it. And what I've learned is that unless I'm happy with my side of the nickel, it can change violently - quickly.

I think people are particularly interested to see who the real me is, but... different stories call for different approaches and you change based on the experience you want that person to have.

I think a bit of mystery is good, and I used to feel like an eccentric person pretending to be normal. But I am actually just a normal person seeming eccentric, by what I'm putting myself through.

When I was making my first record, I think I felt slightly trapped by my mind and my genre. I think in one way, that archaic language I was using came from a kind of mild obsession with the devil.

As a kid I remember being frightened all of the time, and kind of sad. I was certainly troubled. But a lot of people were, y'know? I don't really know how to measure my trouble against somebody else's.

If someone says to me that 'Horizon' is an anti-feminist anthem, I have to tell them, 'No, that's not right.' But I'm not interested in unpicking my music for people. Everybody has different reference points.

I am so much like my mother. When we're in a room together everybody always comments on how spooky it is. I would say I get most of the musicality from my mum - and my dad, but I think my dad is the poet, you know.

My head is full of songs I'm writing now, and things I am thinking now. I'm not very good at drawing on things that have happened, things I think might happen, or things I want to happen. I'm very much in right now.

I like reading things where someone's looked at what I do with some honesty, and maybe been challenged by it, and they have something to say that shows they've thought about it, even if they don't necessarily like it.

Probably when I was about 16 or 17 I started writing. I wouldn't call it poetry, even though I've referred to it as poetry a couple times. But I don't think that's right. It was more scribblings and stream of consciousness.

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.

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