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Eliot Sumner

Eliot Sumner

English Musician

Born: Jul 30, 1990

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Self-sufficiency is vitally important to my self-respect. I never wanted to rely on my parents in that way, because I knew that if I got used to it, I'd be reliant all my life. Eliot Sumner

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I try to read, but my attention span is so bad, and ever since Netflix was invented, that's all I do in my spare time, which is really bad, but it's like a chore to read for me. Eliot Sumner

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I'm very much a creature of habit. I don't like to try to new things. Eliot Sumner

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I sometimes suffer from insomnia, and one of the first times it ever happened, I was like, 'I don't know what to do with myself,' so I started writing a song, and by morning, it was finished. It was about how I couldn't sleep... I was 14. Eliot Sumner

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It's not a nice thing to have a song written about you. Eliot Sumner

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For me, Paul Simon has always been an incredible songwriter, as he writes very complicated songs that sound very simple, and he makes it look so easy when it's not. Eliot Sumner

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I can only be myself, and if I have to suffer for that, that's okay, because to pretend to be somebody else - I tried that, it's terrible. Eliot Sumner

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Being Sting's daughter hasn't kicked any doors open for me - he has had absolutely nothing to do with my career. It's all been down to me so far, and that's how I want to keep it. Eliot Sumner

I make my songs slightly abstract so that people can interpret them their own way. I think that's a lot more special, so you can hear a song and think, 'I feel exactly that way,' even if it wasn't written for that feeling. Eliot Sumner

I was very young when I did 'I Blame Coco,' and I never really recognized that sound as me. Eliot Sumner

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I picked up the guitar when I was 4, and from then, I could never be bored. Eliot Sumner

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