Latest James Blunt Quotes from Interviews

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• 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.

  James Blunt

  Gay, White, Differences

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2013.

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

  James Blunt

  Two, People, Parent

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2013.

• 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.

  James Blunt

  Fun, People, Life Experience

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2013.

• 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.

  James Blunt

  Thinking, Night, Clothes

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2013.

• 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.

  James Blunt

  Writing, Thinking, White

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2013.

• 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.

  James Blunt

  Drinking, Thinking, Shoes

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2013.

• 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.

  James Blunt

  Clothes, People, Singers

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2013.

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

  James Blunt

  Thinking, People, Excited

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2013.

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

  James Blunt

  Song, Play, Band

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2013.

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

  James Blunt

  Home, Keys, Alive

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2013.

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

  James Blunt

  Song, Lying, Writing

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2013.

• 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.

  James Blunt

  Christian, Gay, Men

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2013.

• Honestly if men are given a choice, we'll choose everything.

  James Blunt

  Men, Choices, Given

  "He Writes the Songs You Love". Interview with Carole Radziwill, www.glamour.com. September 30, 2007.

• 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.

  James Blunt

  Hero, Ebay, Addiction

  "He Writes the Songs You Love". Interview with Carole Radziwill, www.glamour.com. September 30, 2007.

• 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.

  James Blunt

  Mistake, Writing, Men

  "He Writes the Songs You Love". Interview with Carole Radziwill, www.glamour.com. September 30, 2007.

• Every person I've met has influenced my songs.

  James Blunt

  Song, Mets, Persons

  "He Writes the Songs You Love". Interview with Carole Radziwill, www.glamour.com. September 30, 2007.

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

  James Blunt

  Way, Language, British

  "He Writes the Songs You Love". Interview with Carole Radziwill, www.glamour.com. September 30, 2007.