I still do lots of gigs where I'm the support act and people are chatting through my set, but I've got better at grabbing attention. I mean, my parents would play on bills with people like Judas Priest and get… — Teddy Thompson Copy Share Image
The state of radio is not great. It's like playing the lottery. The chances of hitting are mind boggling slim. — Teddy Thompson Copy Share
People think unless you have loops and electronics and so on, you must be in your 50s. I quite like a lot of things… — Teddy Thompson Copy Share
My career could've been anything, I just wasn't that good at other things. I'd say it was fairly easy starting out as I did… — Teddy Thompson Copy Share
I went to a boarding school when I was 13, and it was a very arty school, so there was an opportunity for a… — Teddy Thompson Copy Share
I'm never worried about being upstaged. I love to have the best, most individual people come in and see if we hit on something. — Teddy Thompson Copy Share
Any kind of creativity is not settling down into a happy little space. I don't try to be mellow or anything. I think I… — Teddy Thompson Copy Share
I still do lots of gigs where I'm the support act and people are chatting through my set, but I've got better at grabbing… — Teddy Thompson Copy Share
I remember writing 'The One I Can't Have' at the kitchen table. I was looking at a picture of Truman Capote with Marilyn Monroe… — Teddy Thompson Copy Share
Most artists never get a chance to be Picasso, but that doesn't mean you would stop painting. — Teddy Thompson Copy Share
I like England more than I did when I left. It's become a bit of a better country in the last ten years, in… — Teddy Thompson Copy Share
To say how you would react if you were really storming the charts and had people running around after you... who's to say how… — Teddy Thompson Copy Share
It's amazing that you can listen to any song and you can always tell when there's some substance beneath it and when there isn't.… — Teddy Thompson Copy Share
Internet radio stations like KCRW do take you everywhere, yet that's just one of a hundred small things you have to do to succeed.… — Teddy Thompson Copy Share
I used to listen to my dad a lot as a way of trying to be close to him, as well, because my parents… — Teddy Thompson Copy Share
I do think it's probably true to a certain extent that you tend to sing music that fits your voice. If you're Lou Reed,… — Teddy Thompson Copy Share
