It's what is strange about doing a job that is also the thing you love, the thing you feel passionate about. People get to the point where they're burned out and disillusioned by the whole thing because when things aren't… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Most artists never get a chance to be Picasso, but that doesn't mean you would stop painting. — Teddy Thompson Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
