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I can be among the general public and next to me is a big picture of my face, but no one notices apart from my friends.
- Ben Howard
#Big Picture
#Face
#I Can
#Me
#Picture
I've been to some kind of weird places in America. I've been to Idaho.
- Ben Howard
#America
#Idaho
#Kind
#Places
#Weird
I met Xavier Rudd at a surf festival in England.
- Ben Howard
#England
#Festival
#Met
#Surf
I listen to other people's stuff and, more and more, you realise how much is layered and how many different guitar parts there are.
- Ben Howard
#Guitar
#How
#Listen
#More
#People
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.
- Ben Howard
#Live
#Lost
#People
#Sound
#Technology
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.
- Ben Howard
#Festivals
#Like
#Me
#Thought
#Years Ago
People may say I'm difficult but I'm not. I'm a bit shy but it's funny how I can sing in front of an audience and get up on a stage.
- Ben Howard
#Difficult
#Funny
#People
#Shy
#Stage
I think there are definitely positives when you go back to the familiar, because it's something you don't have to think about when you know the place. But sometimes on the other hand, it can be quite unchallenging.
- Ben Howard
#Back
#Go
#Know
#Place
#Sometimes
I like slightly obscure places, where the waves may not be world class, but you can tie some culture in with your surf trip.
- Ben Howard
#Culture
#Places
#Tie
#Waves
#World
I was never in music to make it to award shows.
- Ben Howard
#Award
#Make
#Music
#Never
#Shows
I just write about myself all the time, which is a funny one, because I don't really like sharing much stuff with other people, apart from music.
- Ben Howard
#Funny
#Music
#Myself
#People
#Time
As a musician you're always your own worst critic and you're always digging into your songs and evaluating your own self-worth of things.
- Ben Howard
#Always
#Critic
#Own
#Things
#Worst
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.
- Ben Howard
#Hero
#Me
#Mom
#More
#Music
It's the bane of my life and my existence, people telling me to be a little more succinct with what I write.
- Ben Howard
#Existence
#Life
#Me
#My Life
#People
I need some time and space to make sure I'm on the right track with myself and playing music I want to play.
- Ben Howard
#Music
#Myself
#Right
#Space
#Time
Just to get asked to a Ibiza Rocks is a big thing.
- Ben Howard
#Big
#Get
#Just
#Rocks
#Thing
Women and their impact, good and bad. It makes men write songs. I write about relationships, basically.
- Ben Howard
#Bad
#Good
#Impact
#Men
#Women
In the countryside, you're always hearing sheep, birds, tractors and farm equipment.
- Ben Howard
#Always
#Countryside
#Equipment
#Sheep
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.
- Ben Howard
#Lost
#Need
#People
#Place
#World
I don't really like encouraging people to go on the Internet too much, we're constantly distracted with the Internet and computers.
- Ben Howard
#Computers
#Internet
#People
#Too Much
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