Jake Bugg quotes:

Sometimes Lennon needed McCartney and sometimes Simon needed Garfunkel. You'd go mad doing everything on your own.

Three thousand people singing back your songs is an incredible feeling.

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

Obviously, with your first album, you want to make sure you are really happy with it.

One Direction? The young girls will grow up and forget about 'em.

Bob Dylan is great. Ive been compared to him a lot. I think when people see a person on stage with a guitar they just think, Bob Dylan!

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

Perhaps I'm not a nice person, but no one's perfect.

It can be disheartening to see acts that don't necessarily have any input on their own material to do so well in the charts.

People say to me 'You've changed.' and I say 'Haven't you?' People change, it's just life.

Stuck in speed bump city/Where the only thing that's pretty/Is the thought of getting out,

I would love to have been born in the 60s.

I dont need an award to inspire me to keep making music.

My mum was a single mum on the dole.

The papers, you know, they're always gonna just make stuff up. They think it's in the public interest.

I play music because I love it and I'll keep playin' till I'm old.

If a song is longer than three and a half minutes, itll need something to keep you entertained.

I drink to remember I smoke to forget / Some things to be proud of, some stuff to regret.