Teddy Thompson

The state of radio is not great. It's like playing the lottery. The chances of hitting are mind boggling slim.

— Teddy Thompson

People think unless you have loops and electronics and so on, you must be in your 50s. I quite like a lot…

— Teddy Thompson

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…

— Teddy Thompson

I went to a boarding school when I was 13, and it was a very arty school, so there was an opportunity…

— Teddy Thompson

I'm never worried about being upstaged. I love to have the best, most individual people come in and see if we hit…

— Teddy Thompson

Any kind of creativity is not settling down into a happy little space. I don't try to be mellow or anything. I…

— Teddy Thompson

I still do lots of gigs where I'm the support act and people are chatting through my set, but I've got better…

— Teddy Thompson

I remember writing 'The One I Can't Have' at the kitchen table. I was looking at a picture of Truman Capote with…

— Teddy Thompson

Most artists never get a chance to be Picasso, but that doesn't mean you would stop painting.

— Teddy Thompson

I like England more than I did when I left. It's become a bit of a better country in the last ten…

— Teddy Thompson

To say how you would react if you were really storming the charts and had people running around after you... who's to…

— Teddy Thompson

It's amazing that you can listen to any song and you can always tell when there's some substance beneath it and when…

— Teddy Thompson

Internet radio stations like KCRW do take you everywhere, yet that's just one of a hundred small things you have to do…

— Teddy Thompson

I used to listen to my dad a lot as a way of trying to be close to him, as well, because…

— Teddy Thompson

I do think it's probably true to a certain extent that you tend to sing music that fits your voice. If you're…

— Teddy Thompson

For a long time I was trying to be poppier and younger. I didn't want to be on public radio or do…

— Teddy Thompson

Even for the people in the business who are real music lovers it's really about putting things in the right boxes, and…

— Teddy Thompson

I came from a folk-family background. Although we weren't really the all-singing, all-dancing-around-the-piano folkies or anything like that, there is that idea…

— Teddy Thompson

You just have to make sure you're writing about something that's true. It has to be honest and it has to have…

— Teddy Thompson

It's what is strange about doing a job that is also the thing you love, the thing you feel passionate about. People…

— Teddy Thompson

Everyone's different, but it was fun for me to work with Garth Hudson. He's from 'The Band.' They are a massive influence,…

— Teddy Thompson

Country music was the music I was brought up on. It's the music that's closest to my heart and the music that…

— Teddy Thompson

My goal when I started out was to get to the point where I could tour a lot and make a living,…

— Teddy Thompson

I don't try to stop myself from becoming too personal. I just put it all out there. If anything, I try to…

— Teddy Thompson

I vacillate between feeling grateful for what I have in such hard times for the music business and being frustrated that I…

— Teddy Thompson