When you first sit down to write songs, you have to be selfish.

More Quotes by Ben Howard

A live show is a room full of sound and people and now you have technology where people can film it and take it away and all that is lost afterwards but they have a souvenir.

I met Xavier Rudd at a surf festival in England.

I don't think I've ever been particularly careerist about music.

I got thrust a guitar by my mum as a little kid and always played it. I sort of fell in and out of love with it, there were times when I hated it when I was ten and was forced to go to lessons.

I've surfed on Lake Michigan.

If you had told me many years ago that I'd have been headlining Longitude, or festivals like it, I would have thought it was unimaginable.