I spent 19, 20 years of my life being terrified about what I looked like. I was a ginger white kid.
— Jack Garratt
Who am I to sit here and say I'm going to change the face of music?
With the BBC Sound list, it's just humbling even being put aside those other musicians - people like Alicia Kava, who I am a huge fan of.
Tech gives people more opportunities to be themselves in front of other people. Sometimes that's great; sometimes it's bad.
I've been naturally quick at learning things, and I learn by doing things, so if I sit beside someone who is actively doing something, I look at how they do it and absorb the way in which they do something and find my own comfortable way of reimagining that, or using certain techniques in my own way.
I wish I was a prolific writing wondrous boy genius - I wish I was Stevie Wonder - but I wasn't. I was me. I wrote terrible songs about girls I was head-over-heels about. As soon as a pretty girl looks at me, that's it - I'm in love, and I should probably write a song about it!
I find myself working ten steps ahead of where I actually am on my laptop or keyboard, but I know what the ten steps are. I just haven't got to them yet.
My mission is to just keep creating music. If it helps people in some way, then I'm doing the right thing.
I genre-hop quite a lot. I love manipulating genre and deconstructing it and making it irrelevant. Genreless music is great because it means you get to write in any genre that you like.
The thing that was most constant when I was growing up was just complete support and adoration from my parents.
The best music is the music which brings out something of you that you didn't know was there before, or you did know was there but had avoided.
Performing outside is always kind of strange. Usually, you can't hear something, whether it's your voice or instrument, but it's a fun challenge.
I am only interested in celebrating music.
All I do is hope that someone feels something from listening to my music.
I will have a playlist ready that I'll play out to the audience before I walk on stage, and I'll listen to that same playlist in the room, so by the time I walk on stage, I'm in the same frame of mind the audience is.
I want my music to sound good on whatever people are listening - laptop speakers, those crappy little white ones you get with your PC.
The 'Remnants' EP was the first time I got to really explore myself as a producer, and I got the insane idea of doing it on my own in my future career.
I didn't do myself any favours. I would be resentful of my own ideas even before I'd said them out loud. But music was always the most consistent and peaceful thing for me. So I taught myself to be my harshest critic rather than just a mean voice in the back of my head.
I've always found myself to be most free and creatively open when I'm on my own.
I've purposely made my music to be challenging and different. There's some electronics, R&B, blues, Motown, country, jazz and lots of soul.
My mum would play Stevie Wonder around the house, and I remember just loving the songs and feeling so blown away by how much was going on.
I got to a point when I was 20 that I dropped out of university because I felt I didn't have any purpose, and I wanted to find a fire in me.
I get inspired by the sounds that evoke an emotion from me. That's what I am drawn to; that's what turns me on.
I find it hard to not like music if it has passion behind it and good integrity. Only if it's made for the wrong reasons and shows a lack of respect for its audience will I find something to dislike.
I believe that musical instruments are created because they are supposed to be played. There's not an instrument that's been designed to not be playable - it kind of defeats the point.
The reason I'm scared of flying is because I'm not in charge. Being so far out of control terrifies me.
I don't listen to much music on the go because I tend either to be writing my own music or wanting a break from the music around me.
I got my first laptop, what I learned to do everything on, when I was 17 or 18, and I had no idea what I was doing. I'd only ever produced on an 8-track before. When I was about 13 and writing songs, I would write on that. It would literally be eight tracks, and that's all I had.
Festivals are the best because you can't control anything, and for a control freak like me, that's a wonderful experience.
I grew up with parents who really encouraged me to listen to as much music as I could.
I like making sounds and putting it together, I'm not just a singer or a producer.
I would sing around the house, and I would always play on things just because instruments were always there, but I didn't show any genius as a child. I wasn't a prodigy or anything like that.
I spent my entire childhood going 'look at me, look at me, look at me,' before realising I needed someone to look at me for more than just what I was showing off for.
The most important thing for me is to have as much control over what's going on in front of me as I possibly can, so because of that, I don't play to a click track, and I don't have anything on the grid. Everything is triggered by me. Everything is played by me. Everything is within my control.
