Arlo Parks

I'm up around 11am to my alarm. Without it I'd sleep into the afternoon.

— Arlo Parks

We need to let the people around us know that they're loved.

— Arlo Parks

Sometimes the world is just weird and you have to just roll with the punches.

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I've always felt very connected to people.

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As a person I'm often overwhelmed by emotions, so I write them down.

— Arlo Parks

I make sure to sit down for at least five minutes a day to just capture whatever passes through my mind.

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Normally in life there are all these distractions but in lockdown all that stuff was gone. You were forced to just sit…

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I'm just trusting my intuition and my taste and writing it quickly - I'm glad people are gravitating towards feelings.

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It's important to have a moment where you just stop and look at where you came from.

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I learned a lot of empathy and openness from my parents. I know so many people who don't have that experience.

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You can tell when a song has come from the heart and is genuine, and it moves you more when you can…

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I think 'Black Dog' came out at a time where a lot of people were feeling quite low and confused in quite…

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I'm journalling, checking in with myself. I write about the week and how it felt, my hopes and plans. I do it…

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Super Sad Generation' was essentially about the struggles that you go through when you're growing up in the world and trying to…

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To be a good artist, you need to be sensitive to the world around you, you need to be curious, you need…

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Know that you can move past things that have happened to you and that healing takes time. Take the lessons you learned…

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I'm quite a dreamy person but I'm also very realistic about my possibilities, so if this was meant to remain a hobby…

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When I was younger, there was that desire to be cool and to fit in and to look a certain way. And…

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When I was younger, music really saved me, and felt like a refuge for me when I was in quite a lost…

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Poetry doesn't necessarily need to be some erudite thing. Your mom telling you a story is just as much poetry as some…

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There are so many individuals. We're not going to all have the same ways of being or priorities or personalities. You can't…

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Sometimes you can feel like the only person in the world to have struggled in a certain way and there is a…

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I usually just write a song and record it that day, and then that's kind of it. I'm not very good at…

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I've definitely seen the rise of more charities and Mental Health Awareness Week, and people in general seem a lot more open…

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I was very in my own head as a kid. But I liked it there! I was just writing poetry, writing stories,…

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I realised that being sensitive means you can connect to all kinds of people. I think I've learned that it is a…

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I guess I want to be a voice for the kid. I mean, it sounds quite contrived, but I want to make…

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I've always been a very emotional person and as a child. I guess writing felt like something that I could do in…

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I would say I'm an outlier. Nobody in my family does anything creative, though my dad loved jazz and my mum likes…

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I write from a personal perspective, but sometimes seeing something in the street like that will spark something that reminds me of…

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Most of my songs are based off poetry, but I mainly write to write. I never know which form the words are…

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When I feel something, I write it down so I guess technically it's a personal catharsis, but I would really like to…

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Some days I paint and write and meditate, but some days I just sit about with zero motivation. I think that's natural…

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I realised that what I loved was descriptive writing rather than something with a plot.

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To me, nature is so inspiring - that sense of constant change, the way things are cleansed or washed away, and it's…

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It sounds cheesy to say it, but I think my motivation has always been to help others.

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I went to see my first gig when I was 15 - it was Loyle Carner at Shepherd's Bush - and I…

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All of my songs are so hyper-specific - that they can seem universal is a beautiful thing.

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Minneapolis has always been a mythical place for me because my mom is a massive Prince fan.

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I was writing short stories aged seven or eight. I had a vivid, overactive imagination.

— Arlo Parks