Latest John Newman Quotes from Interviews

• I was a big rugby player and into my motocross, so I lost loads of weight and a rumor went around the town that I had picked up a drug addiction!

  John Newman

  Player, Addiction, Drug

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I went and studied music in Leeds. It really woke me up socially, to stop being so naïve and narrow-minded.

  John Newman

  Leeds, Narrow-minded

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• People keep comparing me to people, and I just ignore it.

  John Newman

  People, Compare

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I don't want to date celebrities, I don't want to roll out of clubs absolutely steaming, make an idiot out of myself. I want to concentrate on my music career.

  John Newman

  Careers, Clubs, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I do like expressing how I feel about things in my music.

  John Newman

  Feels

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'm still quite small-minded and small-town, and people look at me like, "You're too famous to remember me." I want to give them a tap on the shoulder and thank them.

  John Newman

  People, Giving, Looks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I don't get pictures taken of me when I leave clubs.

  John Newman

  Taken, Clubs, Picture Taken

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• If I'm not busy I start twiddling my thumbs.

  John Newman

  Thumbs, Busy, Ifs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Doctors can predict these things [tumors] just as long as they get access to people.

  John Newman

  Doctors, Long, People

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

• If we can afford it, I personally think we should keep giving people MRIs a lot, so we can spot everything early. Our taxes should keep going towards healthcare so that people can be getting scanned regularly and checked over regularly.

  John Newman

  Thinking, People, Giving

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

• I started going blind and my optic nerves of my eye started giving me tunnel vision. I also started fainting a bit and struggling to think. I felt a lot of pressure in my head all the time. That was when it got too much. I'm in a very, very fortunate position now where I've had it taken out once. And now it's back I'm being monitored. I think people at home should be checked for this.

  John Newman

  Struggle, Taken, Home

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

• I'm from a little town called Settle in North Yorkshire, so it's amazing that I get to travel everyday and I get to see such crazy sh*t everyday.

  John Newman

  Crazy, Everyday, Yorkshire

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

• My tumour is a benign pituitary tumour, in the pituitary gland - which is the main hormone centre of the body. It's in the centre of the brain. (Fun fact, [Rene] Descartes thought our consciousness was to be found in the pituitary gland.) And the thing is, there aren't really many symptoms that show until it's too late.

  John Newman

  Fun, Brain, Too Late

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

• Now I've got that [life is a journey not a destination] tattooed on my arm because it just reminds me of that time, and I think it's just an amazing quote.

  John Newman

  Journey, Thinking, Arms

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

• I think positivity also brings determination and wanting to explore more and wanting to do more with your life. Because if you come to that point of having to think about your life in that way you don't want it to be negative.

  John Newman

  Determination, Positivity, Thinking

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

• The only thing my mum could afford growing up was to be able to look after me and my brother so the only thing that I wanted when I grew up was to be able to look after my mum. So when I could, I bought her a house and then I got her a car as well and I got her a little air freshener to put in her car and on it, it said "life is a journey not a destination."

  John Newman

  Brother, Growing Up, Journey

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

• There are a lot of things going on in politics at the moment which means that people can't concentrate on politicians' personalities and the characters of those who are actually running this country. This can overcome what politics is about.

  John Newman

  Running, Country, Character

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

• I think the main reason for staying positive is because if I walk out this door and get hit by a car and I have 10 seconds to live, in those 10 seconds, am I gonna sit there and regret being having been negative and bored my whole life?

  John Newman

  Regret, Thinking, Doors

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

• We need to hold onto that so that people can be told in the right way that they're going through these things [like tumors] early instead of discovering them late. Discovering important health news too late happens far too much.

  John Newman

  People, Important, Needs

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

• I feel like awareness needs to grow. It's becoming a very common thing. I think we have a very strong NHS and healthcare system that needs more support through all this political nonsense that we're going through.

  John Newman

  Strong, Thinking, Nhs

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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