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That, of course, comes whenever anyone gets any popularity. theres got to be an equal and opposite reaction. and he wrote in the guardian, which was the paper i read and which had, what, in 2005, five million readers? it was pretty big because it was before it alljumped off the page, and he wrote this just utterly sneering review, one—star review, really snobby in that sort of guardian way, like, quoting shakespeare. i was like, "how dare you quote shakespeare at me? ill quote shakespeare at y...

A pedal piano, and a lot of people had pedal pianos and inherited them, but mostly, they sat there gathering dust. but my mum retained ours and kept it working because we had this collection of something like 300 or 400 pianola rolls, scrolls, and so that was played a lot. and so i grew up listening to all these old pre—war songs like, you know, funiculi, funicula and all these weird songs and then, you know, sound of music and oliver! and all those musicals were on pianola rolls. i mean, it f...

From les mis", or stop musically commenting on itself and stop textually commenting on itself. he was like, "just write..." i mean, he didnt put it in that many words. he just gave me a nudge in that direction. i realised what he was saying is i didnt need to armour myself with meta, with irony, with satire. i could just write with words to try and elicit a genuine emotion out of the audience. and once he gave me permission to do that, it actually... changed my life. matilda sits in culture as s...

Im not someone who thinks, "well, im an artist, they will come because im brilliant." im like, "how do i make something that people are just going to really enjoy? like, how do i entertain these people with everything ive got?" and i always thought mucking around with ideas of rock and roll and virtuosity, which is really what i built my career on, is playing with ideas of punk versus virtuosity, high status versus low status. and i didnt think about it too much, but i think thats what i was doi...

This show i was doing, which at the time was called dark side, might be a bit of a chance. and so i thought... ive always had a fairly pragmatic attitude to this. im not someone who thinks, "well, im an artist, they will come because im brilliant." im like, "how do i make something that people are just going to really enjoy? like, how do i entertain these people with everything ive got?" and i always thought mucking around with ideas of rock and roll and virtuosity, which is really what i built ...

Of people had pedal pianos and inherited them, but mostly, they sat there gathering dust. but my mum retained ours and kept it working because we had this collection of something like 300 or 400 pianola rolls, scrolls, and so that was played a lot. and so i grew up listening to all these old pre—war songs like, you know, funiculi, funicula and all these weird songs and then, you know, sound of music and oliver! and all those musicals were on pianola rolls. i mean, it feels like a completely di...

La la la la # i hope something you love catches on fire, phil # ding, dang, dong, ive written you this special song # to show how far ive come along # in my efforts to be more mature in the face # of negative feedback.# which really is a song about me not being able to take criticism. it is a complete mickey—take of my own insecurity, but on the way to pointing a spotlight on the fact that im pathetic about not being able to take that criticism... because its quite extreme. its very, very extr...

He appealed to me to try and write less ironically, to not be, like, going, "oh, this is like a bit from les mis", or stop musically commenting on itself and stop textually commenting on itself. he was like, "just write..." i mean, he didnt put it in that many words. he just gave me a nudge in that direction. i realised what he was saying is i didnt need to armour myself with meta, with irony, with satire. i could just write with words to try and elicit a genuine emotion out of the audience. and...

Worse since that. he appealed to me to try and write less ironically to not be, like, going, "oh, this is like a bit from les mis", or stop musically commenting on itself and stop textually commenting on itself. he was like, "just write." i mean, he didnt put it in that many words. he just gave me a nudge in that direction. i realised what he was saying is, i didnt need to armour myself with meta, with irony, with satire. i could just write, with words, to try and elicit a genuine emotion out of...

"oh, this is like a bit from les mis", or stop musically commenting on itself and stop textually commenting on itself. he was like, "just write..." i mean, he didnt put it in that many words. he just gave me a nudge in that direction. i realised what he was saying is, i didnt need to armour myself with meta, with irony, with satire. i could just write with words to try and elicit a genuine emotion out of the audience. and once he gave me permission to do that, it actually to do that, it actually...