You can work for 10 years without making it... we aren't actually all living in mansions.
Jimmy Napes
I wouldn't ever classify myself as a singer. I see myself as a songwriter first.
Most times, you walk into a room, and you don't really have a starting point. You have to create the starting point, and normally you'd do that by thinking of a title or a concept for a song, then working back from there.
I take enormous pleasure in seeing artists go out and sing my songs, or being in the corner of a festival, and everyone's singing along, and no one knows that you've written it.
I've been in the shadows my whole career.
