Quotes from Jack Garratt

People don't want to hear the same song 12 times in a row on an album.

I didn't do myself any favours. I would be resentful of my own ideas even before I'd said them out loud. But music was always the most consistent and peaceful thing for me. So I taught myself to be my harshest critic rather than just a mean voice in the back of my head.

I'm ultimately a perfectionist who doesn't believe in perfection.

I feel the best way to respect my audience is to not give them what they expect from me... 'cause it's fun that way.

The best music is the music which brings out something of you that you didn't know was there before, or you did know was there but had avoided.

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.

I am only interested in celebrating music.

I had a passion and a soul in me that was screaming to be heard, and I had to let them out in as honest and challenging a way as I could.

I watch cartoons a lot. I'm a big 'Rick and Morty' and 'South Park' fan.

I saved up my pocket money when I was about five or six years old. I just wanted to buy a CD, and at that age, I didn't care about what it was, and I ended up buying 'The Teletubbies Say 'Eh-Oh!'' I started off strong.

The thing that was most constant when I was growing up was just complete support and adoration from my parents.

It's difficult sometimes to go and see a show and enjoy it and not go and see a show and critique it.

There's a stigma attached to 'pop music,' like it's a taboo word. It used to make my skin crawl when people said it, and I'd say, 'I'm not a pop star! I want to be a respected musician!' But I think people have changed the way they think about it.

I was studying primary school education. I was going to be a teacher. I was going to get my teaching qualification and have that as my safety net and then tackle the music industry.

I want my music to sound good on whatever people are listening - laptop speakers, those crappy little white ones you get with your PC.

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.

I like making sounds and putting it together, I'm not just a singer or a producer.

The 'Remnants' EP was the first time I got to really explore myself as a producer, and I got the insane idea of doing it on my own in my future career.

I'm fascinated by film scores, especially film scores for children's movies because they have to be able to entertain an audience that isn't interested in music yet.

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.

Who am I to sit here and say I'm going to change the face of music?

I spent 19, 20 years of my life being terrified about what I looked like. I was a ginger white kid.

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.