Top 18 Quotes by James Blake

I've been really trying to hone the art of songwriting in a way that doesn't follow any sort of guideline.

If all the elements are in place, you should get 80 percent of what a song has to offer no matter how you hear it, whether on headphones or on the radio.

I wanted to make sounds that I'd never heard before.

In terms of writing more club tracks, writing more electronically influenced - I feel like it was all electronically influenced, but now that influence has come to me in a different way.

I think Japanese audiences are much more attentive than a London audience.

The level on which Japan seems to have picked up on my music seems to be on a more abstract level.

I've been asked a lot about the state of dubstep in America, and everyone wants me to say something controversial, but I have no negative feelings toward anything, really.

Dubstep has everything for me. Rhythm, sound design, heartfelt emotion - all in one place.

We live with incessant music, all the time. It's like some weird musical purgatory, there is absolutely no rest for the ears, no space to absorb and reflect.

A lot of the vocal music I've been doing recently has been quite clubby. But that's mainly because I've had more time to go to clubs, and that normally breeds that kind of influence.