Quotes from Dean Lewis

I can write a happy song, but there has to be some sort of twist. Otherwise it feels a bit cheesy.

I'm not trying to get across some sort of message or statement. I'm just literally trying to write the best songs I can write. It's all that matters.

I grew up listening to Oasis and The Verve; English music was huge in my house.

There's Sia and 5 Seconds of Summer but that's sort of it, nobody from Australia really has success in America, and to have a song go so well on radio, you start to have success and you think, 'Oh God, I don't want to lose that!'

So, I would write songs... I sort of loved it and hated it in the sense that I would be like, it's never good enough, and I didn't think it was that good, but I always kept striving to write better and better stuff.

If you're big in America, you can go to Australia and automatically, the first time you'll be there, you can sell out huge venues.

I always, always go to my brother Rhys's house whenever something goes wrong and he'll always say 'you'll be alright, forget about it.'

Having all this success in Australia is life-changing and incredible and has given me the opportunity to come to the U.S. and get started over here.