Rex Orange County

“Alex Tumay is a recording engineer who works a lot with Young Thug and a load of other rappers, like Quavo. I'm just a fan of his work.”

“As long as you're being yourself and putting out what you want to put out, it'll be the best thing you could do.”

“When I fifteen or sixteen and was in London, moving from a small town and now going to a big city, I discovered so much new music. Finding all of that music and being inspired that much all...”

“I've never been uncomfortable sharing stuff. It's almost the opposite. I'll say the most blunt, brutally honest thing about any situation.”

“I feel like collaborating is something I need to try more of.”

“Really I've just gotta be making really great music that I love and not worrying too much about what other people are gonna think about it.”

“I want nice songs. I don't want to worry about where I have to place songs on a playlist. I'm looking to make genuine, great songs and put them together into albums.”

“I grew up in a small village on the border of Hampshire and Surrey. When people ask, I tend to say that I'm from Haslemere.”

“A lot of music influences me in other ways than this, but I've always taken a lot of influence from Stevie Wonder, Frank Ocean, and Jeff Rosenstock for the Rex music. They were also the firs...”

“I took piano lessons and I wanted to play drums when I was six. Luckily enough, my parents let me have a drum kit in my room - which is kind of crazy.”

“The first person on the BBC that played me was Huw Stephens. I was sat around my laptop with my girlfriend and my family, and it was super-exciting. It felt weird, and it sounded weirder, bu...”

“I love things that are really linear and perfect and simple.”

“I think there's no limit to ambition, and if you want something, you can make anything happen, so go for it.”

“I'm sure there's some awful video of me singing when I was, like, 13 or 15 at my old school that my dad didn't take down off YouTube.”

“I realized that you can achieve so much at the front of a stage, releasing the music yourself and being something more selfish than just the drummer.”

“I won't be the kind of artist speaking in riddles all the time - it will be lyrics that make sense the moment I say them.”

“I wear my musical heart on my sleeve and show all my influences off. I'm happy for someone to point out that my song sounds like someone else's.”