James Bay Let It Go Quotes

#1. She's my dream catcher. She keeps my nightmares at bay.

E.L. James

#2. I like drawing people in the airport or on the bus or in venues. I like catching people in the moment. It's a similar inspiration for me in terms of songwriting.

James Bay

#3. When I was 16, I spent a year pushing trollies around a car park, and that wasn't fun. I didn't love working in a supermarket; it wasn't for me. It is for some people, and that's totally cool.

James Bay

#4. It's silly to call me the new Ed Sheeran. He can fill stadiums as a solo artist, but I'm not like that.

James Bay

#5. Growing up, when I was at live shows, I was always hoping someone would come out on stage and say, 'The guitarist is sick and couldn't make it ... does anybody know how to play all the songs?' That was always my little dream. It was a massively inspiring thing to be in a space with live shows.

James Bay

#6. There was a guitar that my uncle owned and never learnt to play. He sold it to my dad, and when I heard 'Layla', that was the tune that really grabbed me. I said to my dad, 'Wait, there's a guitar, right?'

James Bay

#7. I'm not waiting, but I'm willing if you called me up. If you ever wanna be in love, I'll come around

James Bay

#8. Perhaps I should have pointed out more often that without her (mother's) guidance and example I might have gone straight from short pants to Long Bay Gaol, which in those days was still in use and heavily populated by larcenous young men who had chosen their parents less wisely.

Clive James

#9. I used to dress up like Michael Jackson. I didn't have the glove, but I had a red jacket like in 'Thriller.'

James Bay

#10. A way a lone a last a loved a long the riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.

James Joyce

#11. I grew up in Pittwater, north of Sydney; Elvina Bay, Scotland Island area. I had to go to school by boat. To get to the mainland, we had to go by boat, so it was just a way of life.

James Spithill

#12. My family quite innocently don't understand the ins and outs of it all, but they see things like the Burberry show and the Live Lounge, so they understand the gravity of those things, but they're proud - it's cool.

James Bay

#13. I loved pop music as a little kid. Things like the Black Eyed Peas. If it had a catchy chorus, I was into it.

James Bay

#14. The Internet is the Wild West of the world, where anybody can throw anything down. Everything can be as relevant as the next thing; it doesn't matter who posts it. In that environment, the Critics' Choice is still very important.

James Bay

#15. Keeps the Flare at bay because the virus thrives in your brain. Eats at it, destroys it. If there's not a lot of activity, the virus weakens.

James Dashner

#16. There should be an element of mystique between the fans and the artist. That bit between the stage and the audience. I think that's necessary.

James Bay

#17. Up until the last minute, it was art and drawing for me. That was the first real and natural thing I thought I was good at and loved to do. But I developed a similar kind of love for music.

James Bay

#18. Kids used to come round to my house, and I'd force them to do a play in the bay windows of my house and get all the mums and dads to sit and watch. I'd write the programme, write the play and be the star.

James Norton

#19. When I'm writing, I need to amplify my thoughts and feelings on just a conversation that I might have had with somebody - somebody close to me. It's often the case that the people closest to me are the people on my mind the most.

James Bay

#20. I spent two years playing open mic nights in Brighton, and I heard more and more people saying, 'You should give it a go in London.'

James Bay

#21. I'm going to take each day and each thing and each gig as it comes at me.

James Bay

#22. I like it when things crescendo to a huge moment like 'Hold Back the River.'

James Bay

#23. I love the intimate, single spotlight, troubadour-y quiet, delicate moments. But I also love Springsteen and screaming and shouting.

James Bay

#24. It's bad to be labeled just another singer-songwriter.

James Bay

#25. Growing up in Hitchin was comfortable and easy enough. My parents had some great records - and some not-so-great ones - and that's where I got introduced to Motown and the Stones and Springsteen.

James Bay

#26. I write about personal experiences. I write about things that have happened to me and the people around me, so you just sort of keep this antenna up and on the lookout for things to say.

James Bay

#27. My songwriting process is painful. Songwriting is brilliant. It's a load of fun - when it works. It's really difficult as well.

James Bay

#28. When I was 15, if anything, I thought I was going to be a Delta bluesman, which is so ridiculous.

James Bay

#29. I do some solo, acoustic stuff, but I also like plugging in my electric guitar and playing loud with a band.

James Bay

#30. I'm still like an excited kid playing guitar in front of the bedroom mirror.

James Bay