I listen to podcasts when I run because it means my mind still gets stimulated by something else.
— Jack Garratt
My guitar setup is inspired by Stevie Ray Vaughan.
I remember listening to 'Songs In The Key Of Life' as a kid. Stevie Wonder has an ability to manipulate pop into something globally obtainable. Anyone can listen and enjoy it because there's something for everyone. That woke me up to the possibilities of pop music.
I don't think there's any such thing as perfection. But I'm a perfectionist. I don't believe in the idea of perfection, but I will strive to achieve it.
I remember, from aged six to nine, I was loud and abrasive and loved making noise and loved playing instruments and doing all those things. When I was about ten, I realised I could get attention by doing that, so when I was eleven, I started writing songs.
My grandfather was a church organist and would sing in choirs and was a musical genius to a certain extent.
I'm always working on new stuff.
When I was a kid and writing more acoustic songs, I was doing it more for the attention than for the love of the music. I knew I needed to change something because I wasn't having fun and wasn't liking the songs I was writing.
I'm just here to do the best that I can do with the music that I make, and I'm not making it for any other reason than I feel like I have to. These ideas have to be created because they're in me, and if I leave them in my head, I'll go crazy.
When I perform live, I'm doing a lot, but I kind of black out. I don't think about it too much.
Winning the BBC Music Sound Of 2016 poll has left me feeling pretty stunned at the end of one of the most emotionally and physically intense years of my life.
I hope that I am, in a way, helping and touching other people with my music, and being a musician and having this as a job gives me a sense of purpose beyond my own selfish needs.
I don't want to write the song that I wrote yesterday, and I don't want to write the song I'm going to write tomorrow; I only write the music I'm writing now.
Music has always been part of my family's life. My brother, sister, and I all have the same ability to pick up an instrument and play.
I was studying primary school education. I was going to be a teacher. I was going to get my teaching qualification and have that as my safety net and then tackle the music industry.
I was put through piano lessons when I was a kid. I say 'put through' because it was fun and I loved it, and it's been beneficial now, but it was difficult because, although I can read music, I much prefer just playing and improvising and at least finding my own way to play an instrument.
When I was younger and played acoustic guitar music, I got a lot of Sheeran comparisons, along with guys like Paolo Nutini and James Morrison.
I'm fascinated by film scores, especially film scores for children's movies because they have to be able to entertain an audience that isn't interested in music yet.
There's a stigma attached to 'pop music,' like it's a taboo word. It used to make my skin crawl when people said it, and I'd say, 'I'm not a pop star! I want to be a respected musician!' But I think people have changed the way they think about it.
I feel the best way to respect my audience is to not give them what they expect from me... 'cause it's fun that way.
With every milestone that I've come across, there's always been a little note at the bottom that's said, 'Don't worry, there's another milestone coming up.'
I would go to school and try to talk to my mates about music and playing instruments and stuff, and they would turn around and go, 'What're you talking about? Shut up.' And I realised that I was the weird one.
For me, creating music is just as relaxing as sitting down and doing nothing.
It's amazing to be nominated for the Brits' Critics' Choice Award 2016. It's such a significant award that highlights the importance of new music, so it's a genuine honour to have been nominated alongside some other incredible new acts from the U.K.
I had a passion and a soul in me that was screaming to be heard, and I had to let them out in as honest and challenging a way as I could.
People forget that, for example, Adele wasn't always the Adele we know. Sam Smith wasn't always the Sam Smith that we know.
I found a way to connect with lots of instruments rather than just fixating on one of them. I just loved making noise on anything.
There is a pressure, but my job essentially is not to listen to that pressure, not to buckle underneath that pressure, but instead to continue making music in the way that I have been making it.
Lyrics are really, really hard, I think, or at least they're really hard for me. Some people can channel lyrics faster. I find them very hard to find, so because of it, they take me a long time, and I really think about them.
The only intention I've ever had creatively, as a musician, is to be as different from myself as possible.
As a kid, I could just pick up melody and harmony instinctively, and that's why I can play lots of instruments.
I studied at university for a term and a day, and then I dropped out.
I watch cartoons a lot. I'm a big 'Rick and Morty' and 'South Park' fan.
I enjoy the music I make because I have to - if I didn't, I wouldn't want to make it, and I wouldn't want it to be heard by other people.
I saved up my pocket money when I was about five or six years old. I just wanted to buy a CD, and at that age, I didn't care about what it was, and I ended up buying 'The Teletubbies Say 'Eh-Oh!'' I started off strong.
I was a huge pop music fan as a kid, but the bands I was into were like 5ive and N-Sync. It was like watching a cartoon. There was so much going on, and the production was so well mixed. Stevie Wonder was able to give you those melodies and production but back it up with such creative integrity and real musicianship and artistry.
I've always said that I would only ever release something that I would want to listen to as a fan.
People don't want to hear the same song 12 times in a row on an album.
The music in my family has always been there; it's been quite an obvious trait that seems to have trickled down the bloodline.
Every single pair of trousers I own has a plectrum in it.
If you can fool every single member of the audience into thinking you're confident and you deserve to be there, everyone will jump on your side.
I wanted to create a body of work that I was proud of. It's come from honesty and integrity, without forcing anything from myself, the ideas had to come instinctively and organically. Whether that translates to people in that way, it's kind of out of my hands now.
The most difficult thing for me as an artist, as a creator of music, is lyrics. But everything else, I just do it.
Ever since I was a little kid, my ears and my hands would talk to each other very well, so I could pick up instruments quite easily.
I'm ultimately a perfectionist who doesn't believe in perfection.
Genre hopping is something I intend to do, and I intend to do it forever and ever because I think genres are boring.
I wanted to be a teacher because that is all I knew. It was a great course on primary school education, in which I could specialise in music, but I ended up dropping out after I was honest with myself about what I really wanted to do with my life.
I just hope people enjoy 'Phase' as much as I've enjoyed making it. I hope it's a good reaction.
It's difficult sometimes to go and see a show and enjoy it and not go and see a show and critique it.
I find it really difficult to turn my head off. I find it difficult to zone out.
