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Passenger
English
Musician
Born:
May 17
,
1984
Me
People
Song
Think
Time
You
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People sometimes come up to me, and it's like they just want to capture Passenger. I feel like Pikachu. Sometimes, in the more sort of depressing moments, it feels like it's not about the music, it's just about the photo, and that really worries me.
Passenger
Music
Me
People
Sometimes
Worries
Photo
About
More
Feel
Feels
Come
Like
Sort
Passenger
Up
Just
Want
Depressing
Really
Moments
Capture
'Heart on Fire' didn't do as well as the last record in most territories, but South Africa is one of the places it did really well.
Passenger
Heart
Fire
South Africa
Record
Most
Well
Territories
South
Did
Africa
Places
Really
Last
You have to play to your strengths, and my strength is the amount of content I create.
Passenger
Strength
You
Content
Create
Your
Play
Amount
Strengths
If you can write a catchy melody and a song that captures people around the world, what better thing to do? Other than 'Let Her Go,' I haven't managed to do that. And that's fine by me.
Passenger
Me
You
People
Song
World
Better
Other
Melody
Fine
Write
Better Thing
Catchy
Around
Go
Than
Captures
Her
Thing
I think whenever I've thought something might go well, it hasn't, and when I've thought, 'Oh yeah, just chuck it out there,' that's when it kicks off, so now, I don't claim to understand anything.
Passenger
Thought
Think
Chuck
Kicks
Claim
Out
Something
Well
Understand
Yeah
Go
Off
Oh
Just
Oh Yeah
Whenever
Anything
Might
Now
I'd get a train to some town and wander about to find a decent spot. Sometimes I'd play for three hours; sometimes I'd get moved on after three songs.
Passenger
Sometimes
Three
Find
Some
About
Songs
Town
Hours
Spot
Train
Get
Wander
Decent
Moved
Moved On
After
Play
For me, it's always just about playing the song and recording it and giving it what it needs as a song.
Passenger
Needs
Me
Song
Recording
Giving
About
Always
Just
Playing
I think you're in trouble if you start chasing what you've done in the past. You always need to move on and look forward and do something new.
Passenger
You
Chasing
Trouble
Past
Move On
Think
Something
Something New
New
Look
Always
Done
Move
In The Past
Forward
Start
Need
I've got friends and my family and people who've been around for years and years and years. And those people are never in doubt: They'd be my friend whether I was a homeless dude, or I had a hit single.
Passenger
Family
People
Single
Doubt
Those
My Friend
Never
Had
Around
Got
Dude
Been
Years
Years And Years
Friend
Friends
Hit
Whether
Homeless
I started busking when I was 24. I was living with Mom and Dad. I'd broken up with my girlfriend and didn't know what I was doing with my life, and I thought, 'Well, this is the last shot - I'm going busking, and let's see what happens.'
Passenger
Life
Mom
Broken
Thought
My Life
Living
See
Girlfriend
Know
Well
Doing
Up
Going
Happens
Shot
Mom And Dad
Dad
Started
Last
I'm so lucky to not have to busk anymore, but I realized as soon as I didn't need to do it that I really missed it.
Passenger
Soon
Missed
Anymore
Realized
Really
Lucky
Need
Its pretty humbling, because I go back to the places where I used to play for 13 people, and now there's 1,500.
Passenger
People
Back
Pretty
Because
Go
Where
Places
Used
Now
Play
Humbling
Maybe when I was a kid, when you have those crazy dreams about what music is going to be like - a string of No. 1 hits, a limo, and a fairground in your back garden - and then you start as a musician, and you realize very, very quickly, that's not how things work. So I just let go of all that stuff.
Passenger
Work
Music
Dreams
Crazy
You
Garden
Back
String
Kid
Those
Musician
About
Stuff
Like
How
Go
Very
Quickly
Hits
Going
Maybe
Just
Realize
Then
Your
Let Go
Things
Start
I think you've got to be careful with social media. You can get addicted to the buzz of people liking and commenting. It's exhausting.
Passenger
You
People
Social Media
Think
Addicted
Be Careful
Liking
Got
Exhausting
Commenting
Get
Social
Media
Buzz
Careful
I think some sing-songwriter music can just be very serious - after an hour and a half of it, you are exhausted - so I try and give it light and shade.
Passenger
Music
You
Light
Try
Half
Exhausted
Just Be
Think
Some
Shade
Give
Hour
Hour And A Half
Very
Just
After
Serious
I'd say 99 per cent of the time I write on my own, just with my guitar, and then it's trying to figure out what it needs in a production sense.
Passenger
Time
Needs
Guitar
Own
Sense
Say
Out
Per
My Own
Write
Trying
Just
Cent
Then
Production
Figure
Busking taught me so much on so many levels, not just about being a musician or writing songs - actually about growing up and being a human!
Passenger
Me
Writing
Musician
About
Songs
Up
Human
Just
Taught
Being
Much
Many
Many Levels
Growing
Growing Up
Actually
Levels
Finally I'd found this way where I didn't need a record label; I didn't need to wait for some phone call to tell me, 'Go and do it'. It's like, I'm going to get up with a bag of CDs and an amp and my guitar and make it happen for myself. That was such a liberating feeling, and I think it was the start of everything.
Passenger
Myself
Me
Phone
Guitar
Wait
Feeling
Think
Everything
Finally
Way
Liberating
Phone Call
Tell
Record
Some
Record Label
Bag
Like
Make
Call
Make It Happen
Go
Label
Up
Get
Going
Where
Happen
Found
Amp
Start
Need
I write so much and I release so much music that I think I'm less precious about that stuff than a lot of people.
Passenger
Music
People
Think
Release
About
Write
Stuff
Lot
Than
Precious
Much
Less
I still have the mentality of a street musician, because I was one for five years. Every opportunity that comes my way, I feel like, 'Absolutely, let's do this.' Sometimes, it's to my detriment. But I don't think you become successful by not saying yes to opportunities.
Passenger
Saying
You
Sometimes
Opportunities
Opportunity
Become
Every
Think
Way
Musician
Mentality
Detriment
Absolutely
Feel
Like
Because
Still
Years
Yes
Five
Successful
Street
Every Opportunity
Ed Sheeran is a good mate of mine, and he just flies around the place doing every single bit of promo or gig or interview, and it's no wonder that when you combine that with immense talent that he's playing in stadiums and arenas around the world.
Passenger
Good
You
World
Single
Every
Interview
Mine
Bit
Immense
Gig
Promo
Arenas
No Wonder
He
Combine
Talent
Ed Sheeran
Around
Mate
Doing
Wonder
Just
Stadiums
Place
Flies
Playing
I learned classical guitar as a kid at about 7 or 8 years old. When I was about 14, I started dabbling in songwriting. That's when I got into the folky singer-songwriter style.
Passenger
Guitar
Old
Style
Kid
Classical
Classical Guitar
About
Songwriting
Singer-Songwriter
Learned
Got
Years
Dabbling
Started
To be honest, busking was a massive part of becoming aware of homelessness. I used to run into a lot of 'Big Issue' sellers and a lot of people on the street. It really opened my eyes to the kind of life that they live and the options that are open for them - or not, actually.
Passenger
Life
Eyes
People
Big
To Be Honest
Live
Kind
Run
Open
Part
Opened
Massive
Becoming
Issue
Lot
Sellers
Options
Them
Really
Used
Homelessness
Aware
Street
Actually
Honest
I can find myself in a situation where, by the time I'm releasing an album, I have the next one written. It is a bit old school.
Passenger
Time
Myself
School
Old
Situation
Bit
Releasing
Find
Written
Where
Next
Old School
Album
By The Time
If you're a priority artist, then you get an amazing amount of exposure and money thrown. If you are more niche, then it's not necessarily the way forward. If you want Instagram followers and fame, then the major labels are still really great for that.
Passenger
Great
You
Money
Amazing
Way
Followers
More
Instagram
Thrown
Major
Priority
Still
Fame
Labels
Get
Artist
Want
Then
Really
Forward
Exposure
Niche
Amount
Necessarily
I've grown up on American songwriters my whole life - listening to Paul Simon and Bob Dylan and people like John Prine - you know, classic, real songwriters. They've been the lion's share of what I've really focused on as a writer and as influences, too.
Passenger
Life
Lion
You
People
Listening
Too
Focused
John
Classic
Simon
Writer
Share
Songwriters
Like
Know
Real
Been
Up
American
Influences
Dylan
Paul
Paul Simon
Bob
Bob Dylan
Really
Whole
Grown
Grown-Up
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