Jake Bugg

At school, people would say I should go on 'Britain's Got Talent,' but I would never have done that because it doesn't seem genuine; it doesn't feel natural.

As a songwriter, it's very hard to listen to music that's not coming from the heart and soul, personally.

I don't need an award to inspire me to keep making music.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

Influenced by Pete Seeger and the Weavers, McLean proudly wore the mantle of troubadour in the early 1970s, when 'American Pie' topped the Billboard charts, and has never shed the cape.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.