Jake Bugg
Bob Dylan is great. I've been compared to him a lot. I think when people see a person on stage with a guitar they just think, 'Bob Dylan!'
Obviously, with your first album, you want to make sure you are really happy with it.
As a songwriter, it's very hard to listen to music that's not coming from the heart and soul, personally.
Sometimes Lennon needed McCartney and sometimes Simon needed Garfunkel. You'd go mad doing everything on your own.
I don't need an award to inspire me to keep making music.
I play music because I love it and I'll keep playin' till I'm old.
It can be disheartening to see acts that don't necessarily have any input on their own material to do so well in the charts.
The papers, you know, they're always gonna just make stuff up. They think it's in the public interest.
At school, people would say I should go on 'Britain's Got Talent,' but I would never have done that because it doesn't seem genuine; it doesn't feel natural.
I would love to have been born in the '60s.
My mum was a single mum on the dole.
If a song is longer than three and a half minutes, it'll need something to keep you entertained.
Before I was 12 years old, I had no interest in music; I was just into football. Then I heard Don McLean's 'Vincent' come on at the end of an episode of 'The Simpsons.' You know when you hear something and you don't understand why you like it, you just do? That's how I felt. I just thought, 'I want to be able to write songs like that.'
YouTube is a good way to discover new music now because it comes up with that thing at the side with other artists you might like.
Three thousand people singing back your songs is an incredible feeling.
I don't care about the word 'pop'. The Beatles were pop; it's just what's popular.
One Direction? The young girls will grow up and forget about 'em.
People say to me 'You've changed.' and I say 'Haven't you?' People change, it's just life.Collection: Life
I would love to have been born in the 60s.Collection: Born
If a song is longer than three and a half minutes, itll need something to keep you entertained.Collection: Song
Perhaps I’m not a nice person, but no one’s perfect.Collection: Nice
Bob Dylan is great. Ive been compared to him a lot. I think when people see a person on stage with a guitar they just think, Bob Dylan!Collection: Thinking
I drink to remember I smoke to forget / Some things to be proud of, some stuff to regret.Collection: Regret
Stuck in speed bump city/Where the only thing that's pretty/Is the thought of getting out.Collection: Cities
I dont need an award to inspire me to keep making music.Collection: Awards