About James Blunt: James Hillier Blount is an English singer-songwriter. He had signed with EMI before securing a recording contract with Atlantic Records and Custard Records.
I guess if you're stupid enough to join the army without thinking about getting shot at, then you really are a fool.
I know I'm a pop star. But sometime I'd like to be a rock star.
I like 'Goodbye My Lover' because it's a really personal song and I recorded it in my landlady's bathroom in Los Angeles. She had a piano in there and for me listening back to it, it actually sounds like the voice I hear in my head. It's so close to ...
I try to read everything that I can about myself because Saddam Hussein didn't read his reviews and he thought he was winning!
The showbiz world has to be manipulated to make it more interesting because most people's lives are boring.
I am not into fashion. I just like being able to buy my mates dinner.
I sing like a girl.
I don't agree with superstitious routines, but there are a couple of things I'll always do before performing. I'll get together with the band and chill out, and then, just before I go on stage, I'll always check my flies.
I try to tell one lie in every interview. It keeps people I know amused when they read the article.
I think sensitive is the wrong description of me. I'm British, actually, so quite bad at expressing myself in conversation, as any ex-girlfriend will tell you. I'm probably emotionally stunted.
On the song 'Dangerous,' it feels like a teenager picking up a new instrument and writing something with all of that naive excitement.
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.
You light the Spark in my Bonfire Heart.
Tracer lighting up the sky. It's another families' turn to die. A child afraid to even cry out says, He has been here. And I see no bravery, No bravery in your eyes anymore. Only sadness.
Things take a long time, but when it's right things move fast.
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.
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.
I never really set out to do anything in the charts with music. It came as a total surprise that I did, and it's fun.
'Top Gear' changed people's perceptions of me. I've had much more positive responses from my TV appearances than written articles. And I have the weirdest voice.
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 don't think I picked up the guitar in the first place as a way of getting women. There are probably better ways of doing it.
