“Internet radio stations like KCRW do take you everywhere, yet thats just one of a hundred small things you have to do to succeed. It used to be, if you just got on the cover of Rolling Stone and a spotlight on The Tonight Show, that was enough.” IfsEnoughShowsUsedInternetSucceedHundredStonesRadioUsed To BeJust OneTonightStationsRollingSmall ThingsSpotlightRolling StonesRadio Stations Author:Teddy Thompson
“I came from a folk-family background. Although we weren't really the all-singing, all-dancing-around-the-piano folkies or anything like that, there is that idea of singing and playing with your parents and your family and your cousins.” IdeasParentSingingDancingFolksBackgroundsPianoOur FamilyCousinFamily BackgroundYour Cousin Author:Teddy Thompson
“I used to listen to my dad a lot as a way of trying to be close to him, as well, because my parents were divorced and I didnt spend that much time with him. I used to put head phones on and listen to my dad talk and sing and kind of had a weird bonding in a way.” WayTryingWellsUsedFoundParentDadMy DadDivorcedBondingHeadphones Author:Teddy Thompson
“Country music was the music I was brought up on. It's the music that's closest to my heart and the music that speaks to me the most, and it's always been a big influence on my own songwriting.” HeartCountryBigsSpeakMy OwnInfluenceMy HeartSongwritingClosest Author:Teddy Thompson
“Any kind of creativity is not settling down into a happy little space. I don't try to be mellow or anything. I think I have quite... my voice is what it is, no matter what I'm singing, it's always going to sound like me. There's not too far I could go. I sound like myself. I hope that I haven't put any boundaries on anything.” ThinkingTryingKindLittlesMatterSoundVoiceSpaceCreativityHavensSingingNo Matter WhatBoundariesLike MeSettlingSettling DownMellowNot Settling Author:Teddy Thompson
“It's what is strange about doing a job that is also the thing you love, the thing you feel passionate about. People get to the point where they're burned out and disillusioned by the whole thing because when things aren't going well at work it also means they aren't going well in your heart, in your soul. They're all wrapped up together.” PeopleFeelsWellsHeartMeanSoulWholeTogetherJobsStrangePassionateYour SoulWorking ItBurnedDisillusionedThings You LoveBurned Out Author:Teddy Thompson
“I'm a hybrid-genre person, which a lot of people find confusing. I grew up listening to American country music and rock n' roll made between 1955 and 1959. The Everly Brothers and Chuck Berry were my first musical loves and are still what I am most moved by. Roy Orbison came a little bit later.” PeopleFirstsLittlesPersonsMadeStillsCountryBitsRocksBrotherListeningGrewLittle BitGrew UpMovedMusicalGenreRock N RollConfusingChuckBerriesHybridEverly Brothers Author:Teddy Thompson
“I remember writing 'The One I Can't Have' at the kitchen table. I was looking at a picture of Truman Capote with Marilyn Monroe and that's where I started. It doesn't make any sense because he was gay, but it was just the idea of the short guy and the beautiful blonde out of his league. That's where I started, but very quickly it became about me.” WritingI CanIdeasBeautifulRememberGuyGayTablesLeagueKitchenBlondeTrumanKitchen Table Author:Teddy Thompson
“Most artists never get a chance to be Picasso, but that doesn't mean you would stop painting.” MeanArtistChancePainting Author:Teddy Thompson