James Blunt Quotes

I try to read everything that I can about myself because Saddam Hussein didn't read his reviews and he thought he was winning!

Things take a long time, but when it's right things move fast.

The showbiz world has to be manipulated to make it more interesting because most people's lives are boring.

As a singer-songwriter who gets up on stage and sings about those things that make me vulnerable is an amazing experience. You get up on stage and effectively take your clothes off in front of thousands of people.

Ladies love a soppy lyric. There's a real winner in 'Carry You Home'.

I think the things that make me excited are only best when they're shared with people.

I write, "Give me reason but don't give me choice, because I'll make the same mistake again." I think that's what most men want to be told.

It may be over but it won't stop there, I am here for you if you'd only care

To get up on stage with a band is fantastic. To play songs to an audience is mindblowing.

No matter whether you are black or white, man or woman, gay or straight, Christian, Muslim, or Jew, we all share the same emotions, the same human condition.

I always wanted to be a Muppet. So when 'Sesame Street' approached me to guest star, I thought: 'I'm going to be on this!' It's pretty incredible stuff.

My life is brillant, My love is pure.

I'm pretty sure Adele and James Blunt were dumped by the same man.

It's taken a long time but eventually when I had the songs in place and demos right and I found myself a manager, that's when everything started happening quickly but I think that's always the way it is.

Being British, I don't really have a way of expressing myself in conversation. Music transcends language.

Every person I've met has influenced my songs.

I'm screaming at the top of my voice

On the song 'Dangerous,' it feels like a teenager picking up a new instrument and writing something with all of that naive excitement.

I guess if you're stupid enough to join the army without thinking about getting shot at, then you really are a fool.

I don't know how to write without thinking what people would want. You don't know whether they want you to be black or white, so you kind of get a gray, something in the middle.

And the one job my father knew of, that he'd had experience of himself, was the Army, so he could help me in that direction.

I know I'm a pop star. But sometime I'd like to be a rock star.

Being sent away to boarding school at seven is as great an inspiration as any songwriter could have - to be taken away from one's family and locked away for 10 years. It does create an incredible intensity of emotion.

Mothers always think their children are prettier than they really are, and mine has always told me I look like Tom Cruise.

I have friends who were friends of mine before I did music and they are my friends now, and we share life experiences. It's no fun unless you're sharing with people, looking out for them as they are looking out for you.

In a way song writing can almost be detrimental, because suddenly you find an outlet that is a kind of cheating. You don't need to have direct communication. You can say, 'I can't describe it to you, but I will record it and send it to you.'

Will you be my shoulder when I'm gray and older? Promise me tomorrow starts with you. Getting high, running wild among the stars above. Sometimes it's hard to believe you remember me.

There's a lot of music nowadays with people singing about how amazing their clothes are and how incredible their shoes are and how much jewelry they might be wearing or how much jewelry they want, how much money they have and the club that they're in and the alcohol that they're drinking. I think that's showing off. I don't think it's necessarily all that honest or all that interesting.

Sometimes, reading my own media, the negativity can upset me, but I just deal with things on a positive basis. I mean, I have up to 20,000 people singing my words back to me on a nightly basis - they share my hopes and fears, and they relate to my own life experiences. Life can be pretty isolating, but that connection is always amazing.

I write songs about my own experiences. You can't lie to yourself. You can't pose to yourself.

War is devastating, and it leaves its scars for generations.

It's always nice to be able to capture your life's experiences in a song and hold the emotion in that way.

My parents are still together. I have two sisters. I travel the world and they are the people I speak to.

I always wanted to be a Muppet.

Every time I do an interview, it's like serious therapy. But real therapy isn't something that I'd ever have. I feel fortunate that mentally everything is functioning well.

Absolutely, it's a really weird stage because at the minute, I can walk down the street and be unrecognised, lead a normal life, but my label and everybody is warning me that will be changing and I'm in for a rollercoaster ride.

I have been told by people that I should not be seen clubbing with good-looking women, but I can't see why not. Why be a pop star otherwise?

I try to tell one lie in every interview. It keeps people I know amused when they read the article.

If you get up on stage and brag, I don't think that's very brave. It's braver to get up and take your clothes off. And I do that every night.

The song is about love, life, fear and hope... and more than anything, you... and me...

I have fun with it and I am honest and open about the way I lead my life and don't mislead anyone. I've had the time of my life and thank God for that, it would be such a waste otherwise.

We see differences in people and seem to be afraid of people. The black or white or gay or straight - I don't necessarily look for differences but for similarities. We need to be looking out for each other.

To come home and share life experiences with friends is the key to what makes me feel really alive.

I am a dreamer but when I wake, you can't break my spirit, it's my dreams you take

I am not into fashion. I just like being able to buy my mates dinner.

This will be my first visit [to Israel]. I've heard it's a special place, that Tel Aviv is exciting and that the atmosphere is excellent....I hope I'll have time to visit the holy places.

My dad was in the Army. The Army's not great pay, but, you know, we moved from Army patch to Army patch wherever that was. The Army also contributed to sending me off to boarding school.

I used to have an eBay addiction. I was really good at selling stuff. My sister needed to get to a funeral in Ireland - the airlines were on strike - so I listed her on eBay: damsel in distress. Guys were outbidding guys to be the hero and help her. A guy who owned a helicopter won.