Quotes from Tom Walker

I really am very grateful for the support from everyone in Scotland.

My first concert I can remember was AC/DC when I was 9 years old, in Paris. It's a good first one!

I stay round at gran's when I come up to visit.

I started out with acoustic guitar and loop pedal because I thought I wanted to be Ed Sheeran.

I'm a bit of a perfectionist and sometimes need someone to tell me to stop.

It's amazing to be nominated for two Brits, and I'm in great company. I'm not a politician out blagging votes, but if people like what I do and feel like giving me a vote for British Breakthrough, imagine how mint it would be if I actually won.

I tried to take my gran to the Brits, but she's 81, and I don't know if she was up for making the whole journey all that way for one night anyway.

There's something about the pipes that just connects with Scots, they go mental for it - it's in our DNA somehow.

As soon as I'm in the studio for too long, I wanna be out on tour.

It was awesome growing up listening to Oasis and Paolo Nutini, but I also loved growing up listening to Ray Charles and Muddy Waters.

My dad took me to loads of concerts when I was growing up.

The town I grew up in, there were no musicians to play with; it was just me. The town I grew up in, there was two shops: like, a paper shop that sells confectionery, sweets and stuff, and, like, a farm supplies and a petrol station. That was literally it.

Sometimes music can really seem like a popularity contest with beautiful people.

Eventually, my dad bought me a guitar for Christmas, and then I just went from there, man. I bought a drum kit a few years later and bought a bass, started producing, started singing.

I grew up in a Glaswegian house because my parents are fairly Glaswegian-sounding.

I've always loved good music; I'm not really fussed where it comes from.

I feel like songwriting, for me, is kind of therapy.

I've got such close ties to both... Glasgow with all my family, then Manchester with all my mates that I grew up with. So my heart is definitely in both.

I set out to make music people enjoy, but it is really cool that it is helping people get through.

Toilets are the best place for awards.

I'm a huge fan of Paolo Nutini, I'm so in love with his songs and his voice.

I wasn't sure what to expect when I toured with Danny from The Script, but he is so nice.

Sam Smith knew who I was!

I did splash out on a 1964 Fender Jaguar guitar in L.A.