Quotes from Ben Howard

The world is a very noisy place and so I don't need to shout about things. There are so many people shouting and a lot of people get lost in it.

We spent so much time on 'Every Kingdom,' it was a real heart record.

With music you spend so much time standing on stage in front of an audience you get a false sense of your own importance. It's worth keeping that in check.

I've surfed on Lake Michigan.

John Martyn is my biggest hero. My mom got me into his music when I was a kid. I've looked up to him more than anyone as a songwriter. And Bert Jansch is one of the pillars of acoustic music, the holy grail.

Coming from the U.K., you realize how quiet England is, and as soon as you get to America, it's really big and brash and loud out here, and South by Southwest was the epitome of that.

A live show is a room full of sound and people and now you have technology where people can film it and take it away and all that is lost afterwards but they have a souvenir.

I live inside my own brain, most of the time. So where I am physically doesn't really bother me - if the physical place sparks something in my imagination, then it's a good place.

I'm not very good at speeches.

If you had told me many years ago that I'd have been headlining Longitude, or festivals like it, I would have thought it was unimaginable.

I'm one of those artists who doesn't really believe in fame. You can be a normal person these days, you don't need celebrity appeal.

To have a sort of career in music still kind of freaks me out every now and then.

I am really opinionated when I want to be but I'm just not loud.

I took the sing from your song. I made a bed where you don't belong.

The recording sessions for 'Noonday Dream' were so varied and over quite a period of time.

We were selling out venues, not just in London but also major cities in France and Germany before labels had even noticed what we were doing.

We've played all sorts of weird and wonderful places. You do all kinds of venues from heavy metal places in Germany to big ornate churches, and everything in between.

We adapt very quickly to things, don't we?

I've been going to Ibiza all my life really, since I was a kid.

It's amazing how English music manages to travel to America and obviously, American music in the U.K. is massive.

It's great to be part of the whole Ibiza Rocks vibe. Ibiza's always had a big gap when it comes to bands with guitars so it's great to be included really.

Loud sounds are everywhere.

I've been worryin' that we all, live our lives, in the confines of fear