Jade Bird

But when I was 12 or 13, I found the acoustic guitar and got into guitar music ultimately, like Black Motorcycle Club,…

— Jade Bird

My grandma divorced my granddad and became a finance manager to get her own house, and my mum worked very hard to…

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I don't really get inspired by landscapes that much, it's all people.

— Jade Bird

I think with how society makes me feel like I should grasp onto the inner strength of me being a woman, and…

— Jade Bird

Every time people try and define me, it gets battered around. I like to keep people guessing.

— Jade Bird

I always try to be myself, be it a festival crowd or my own crowd.

— Jade Bird

I write great songs and the mistakes make them even better. No one else could write a Morrissey song.

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I work a lot on words, so if I hear a word or see a word or a phrase or a sentence…

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It was always quite negative messages on love I was given as a kid.

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I've had to tell people that I'm not co-writing. I don't want to do it and that's that.

— Jade Bird

My mum brought me up by herself, pretty much. She had me at the age of 20, and my grandmother was a…

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I like my jumpsuits. They're easy to get about in, I can move a bit onstage, there's nothing to tuck in, and…

— Jade Bird

A good song always has to do with the person representing it - how they're feeling in that moment - but I…

— Jade Bird

I write 100% of my material by myself. That's really important to me because I don't want what I'm trying to say…

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I never expected I was going to travel the world playing gigs with my band and best friends. I have surpassed any…

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I just always really loved music that was coincidentally from the States.

— Jade Bird

I love playing live, and doing big TV shows are exciting.

— Jade Bird

Audiences in the U.S. can sometimes be a lot less refined. If they like something, they tend to express it more loudly.

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If you write your own lyrics now, and those are the main focus in the EP... people tend to approach it as…

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My grandparents divorced, both of them, and then my mum and dad did. So it's like, divorce, divorce, divorce.

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Cheating tends to come up a lot in my songs. Betrayal fascinates me. I think the fact that you can trust someone…

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I've been surrounded by incredibly strong women: incredibly, unapologetically strong women, and I guess that for me has just been the biggest…

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There's not point in doing anything without conviction.

— Jade Bird

I like to keep morale up and not take things so seriously all the time. I enjoy life and laughs but I'm…

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I've often been told that if music doesn't work out I could be a comedian.

— Jade Bird