Quotes from Rex Orange County

I'm sure there's some awful video of me singing when I was, like, 13 or 15 at my old school that my dad didn't take down off YouTube.

I'm not actually as emotional as everybody thinks. The songs are super personal, but that's just one side of me, and I guess people just assume I'm some troubled guy who's constantly sad.

I've never been uncomfortable sharing stuff. It's almost the opposite. I'll say the most blunt, brutally honest thing about any situation.

The first Nardwuar video I watched was, funnily enough, the first Odd Future one.

I'm quite stubborn, and it's hard for me to let people in - whether that's literally, musically, or with business and work.

I'm afraid of peacocks.

The moment you start thinking about what other people and other artists think, you're going to start writing like other people.

I grew up in a small village on the border of Hampshire and Surrey. When people ask, I tend to say that I'm from Haslemere.

I love things that are really linear and perfect and simple.

I'd rather go to school and do loads of music than anything else.