The reason I'm scared of flying is because I'm not in charge. Being so far out of control terrifies me.
I will have a playlist ready that I'll play out to the audience before I walk on stage, and I'll listen to that same playlist in the room, so by the time I walk on stage, I'm in the same frame of mind the audience is.
With the BBC Sound list, it's just humbling even being put aside those other musicians - people like Alicia Kava, who I am a huge fan of.
I believe that musical instruments are created because they are supposed to be played. There's not an instrument that's been designed to not be playable - it kind of defeats the point.
All I do is hope that someone feels something from listening to my music.
Who am I to sit here and say I'm going to change the face of music?
I find it hard to not like music if it has passion behind it and good integrity. Only if it's made for the wrong reasons and shows a lack of respect for its audience will I find something to dislike.
I am only interested in celebrating music.
I spent 19, 20 years of my life being terrified about what I looked like. I was a ginger white kid.
I enjoy the music I make because I have to - if I didn't, I wouldn't want to make it, and I wouldn't want it to be heard by other people.
When I was younger and played acoustic guitar music, I got a lot of Sheeran comparisons, along with guys like Paolo Nutini and James Morrison.
I find it really difficult to turn my head off. I find it difficult to zone out.
I watch cartoons a lot. I'm a big 'Rick and Morty' and 'South Park' fan.
I was put through piano lessons when I was a kid. I say 'put through' because it was fun and I loved it, and it's been beneficial now, but it was difficult because, although I can read music, I much prefer just playing and improvising and at least finding my own way to play an instrument.
It's difficult sometimes to go and see a show and enjoy it and not go and see a show and critique it.
I studied at university for a term and a day, and then I dropped out.
I just hope people enjoy 'Phase' as much as I've enjoyed making it. I hope it's a good reaction.
As a kid, I could just pick up melody and harmony instinctively, and that's why I can play lots of instruments.
Music has always been part of my family's life. My brother, sister, and I all have the same ability to pick up an instrument and play.
I wanted to be a teacher because that is all I knew. It was a great course on primary school education, in which I could specialise in music, but I ended up dropping out after I was honest with myself about what I really wanted to do with my life.
The only intention I've ever had creatively, as a musician, is to be as different from myself as possible.
I don't want to write the song that I wrote yesterday, and I don't want to write the song I'm going to write tomorrow; I only write the music I'm writing now.
Genre hopping is something I intend to do, and I intend to do it forever and ever because I think genres are boring.
Lyrics are really, really hard, I think, or at least they're really hard for me. Some people can channel lyrics faster. I find them very hard to find, so because of it, they take me a long time, and I really think about them.
I hope that I am, in a way, helping and touching other people with my music, and being a musician and having this as a job gives me a sense of purpose beyond my own selfish needs.
I'm ultimately a perfectionist who doesn't believe in perfection.
There is a pressure, but my job essentially is not to listen to that pressure, not to buckle underneath that pressure, but instead to continue making music in the way that I have been making it.
Winning the BBC Music Sound Of 2016 poll has left me feeling pretty stunned at the end of one of the most emotionally and physically intense years of my life.
Ever since I was a little kid, my ears and my hands would talk to each other very well, so I could pick up instruments quite easily.
I found a way to connect with lots of instruments rather than just fixating on one of them. I just loved making noise on anything.
When I perform live, I'm doing a lot, but I kind of black out. I don't think about it too much.
The most difficult thing for me as an artist, as a creator of music, is lyrics. But everything else, I just do it.
People forget that, for example, Adele wasn't always the Adele we know. Sam Smith wasn't always the Sam Smith that we know.