Quotes from Dennis Lloyd

I love my family, my friends, the hummus, the sea, everything.

I get messages from Palestinians and from Iranians... everyone is, like, the same.

At the end of the day, I earn a living by creating music and not sharing it with anyone because I am my own master. I know my worth.

Love makes you blind. One day you're in love, the next day you wake up and realize that not everything is perfect.

I met a girl, and two months after we met I wrote 'Nevermind.' And 'Never Go Back' is actually a song I wrote two or three days after the breakup, after a year and a half. Straight continuation of the story.

I'm a very calm person.

If you hear a song and all you want to do is open the window and drive to the beach it's a good song for the summer.

I signed at Sony and suddenly they've started to take an interest in Israeli musicians and to listen more, and I send them stuff. It's very important for me to open that window for Israelis.

Yeah, I spent a year in Thailand back in 2015-2016, and I wrote, like, 40 songs.

I packed my bags and I moved to Bangkok, Thailand. I spent a year there like completely isolated, no Wi-Fi.

I don't even have the plaques in my house - the gold and platinum-selling plaques. I gave them to my parents and grandparents. It was never about the numbers, never about the money. It was always about the music. That's all I care about.

I had a lot of haters at school, which is a scar I still have.

I'm not a showoff. My happiness comes from very basic and simple things.

In Israel, I don't do any interviews at all. I don't want to be a celebrity in Israel.

There are so many talented Israelis - musicians and actors and everything.

I was living in Bangkok and I had a girlfriend during this time, she was traveling and I was jealous. Y'know, I thought she might meet someone, might do something, and I was just worried, and I went and I wrote 'Nevermind.'

Two of my biggest musical inspirations are Kurt Cobain and Chris Cornell.

I started to record songs and put them on YouTube and people laughed behind my back.

At the age of 15, I bought a USB microphone on a trip to the United States with my family, and that was my first recording studio.

When I was 8 years old, there was a showcase of all the instruments you can learn at my school. This guy was playing the trumpet. I heard it and was like 'Oof I got to learn to play.' The sound - everything was amazing. I was blown away.

I made an a capella cover of Kesha when everyone else was listening to Miles Davis and people didn't like it. They imitated me.

GFY' is about the thin line between love and hate. It's about statements that are said out of anger that unfortunately cannot be taken back.

My song 'Nevermind' was named after Nirvana's album, so when I had to choose a cover for my Spotify Singles session, choosing 'Like A Stone' by Audioslave was the natural next choice, as I grew up constantly listening to the song.

There is power in music, certainly when an audience starts to show up and you have the option to send good messages.