Jake Bugg Quotes

Before I was 12 years old, I had no interest in music; I was just into football. Then I heard Don McLean's 'Vincent' come on at the end of an episode of 'The Simpsons.' You know when you hear something and you don't understand why you like it, you just do? That's how I felt. I just thought, 'I want to be able to write songs like that.'

Perhaps I'm not a nice person, but no one's perfect.

One Direction? The young girls will grow up and forget about 'em.

I don't care about the word 'pop'. The Beatles were pop; it's just what's popular.

At school, people would say I should go on 'Britain's Got Talent,' but I would never have done that because it doesn't seem genuine; it doesn't feel natural.

YouTube is a good way to discover new music now because it comes up with that thing at the side with other artists you might like.

I don't need an award to inspire me to keep making music.

The papers, you know, they're always gonna just make stuff up. They think it's in the public interest.

Sometimes Lennon needed McCartney and sometimes Simon needed Garfunkel. You'd go mad doing everything on your own.

As a songwriter, it's very hard to listen to music that's not coming from the heart and soul, personally.

I would love to have been born in the '60s.

I drink to remember I smoke to forget / Some things to be proud of, some stuff to regret.

Obviously, with your first album, you want to make sure you are really happy with it.

Stuck in speed bump city/Where the only thing that's pretty/Is the thought of getting out,

Bob Dylan is great. I've been compared to him a lot. I think when people see a person on stage with a guitar they just think, 'Bob Dylan!'

My mum was a single mum on the dole.