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People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.

I always wanted to sing English songs, ever since I was, like, 10 or 12 years old.

We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past.

I grew up listening to English music.

I have been long associated with British music. I have favoured it as my alternate music next to American.

When I'm writing, I mean what I'm saying - there's a lot of me in each song.

There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate.

I don't really write songs anymore.

So many of the bands that influenced me growing up were English, even if I didn't realise it. English pop ruled the world in the '80s!