Top 15 Quotes & Sayings by Eliot Paulina Sumner

I prefer darker things and more minimal stuff. I don't like when people just put words on canvases.

I have a few methods that I use. One of them that kind of works but is a bit a boring is that I lock myself in the studio and I have four hours to work and come up with stuff. If nothing's sticking in four hours, then I can stop.

I'm still at the age where I'm constantly seeking approval of people I have respect for.

I don't speak anything fluently, but I love picking up languages and I do this Duolingo app. I started when I moved to Sweden, when I was about 19, 20. I really loved the language; it was super melodic and really sexy.

If you watch a film without music, there's nothing that you can connect with.

I don't have a lot of self-confidence. I'm getting there. Before I had zero confidence, but it's one of those things you learn and accept.

I think I'm very in touch with nature because I grew up in that surrounding. That's a big part of who I am; I don't know anything different.

I'm a terrible sleeper. I get obsessive, repetitive thoughts and it's horrible.

I sometimes suffer from insomnia and one of the first times it ever happened I was like, "I don't know what to do with myself," so I started writing a song and by morning it was finished. It was about how I couldn't sleep... I was 14.

If something depressing is happening, that's gold. That's the best possible situation you could be in. But if that doesn't happen, you just have to make up stuff - it's more fun because you have more freedom with what you can write about. You can invent characters and situations. It's actually easier.

People in London are so much more exposed to danger, or bad things. It took me quite a long time to grow up in that environment.

When I was four, I think I just wanted to make noise. When I was about 10 years old I was given five CDs for my birthday: Pink Floyd's 'Dark side of the Moon,' the Sex Pistols, Prodigy, Jimi Hendrix, and I can't remember the fifth one, but really different kinds of music. That's when I started to grasp it and enjoy it, listening to it. Then I started being in bands at school.

I take every day as it comes and if I have to be somewhere, I'll be there.

I find Spanish really difficult. They speak so quickly, whereas in German it's very clear what they're saying. It's easier to repeat.

I kind of got inspired by [William] Wordsworth and [Samuel Taylor] Coleridge - I went the old traditional way of finding inspiration, I guess.