Music has always been part of my family's life. My brother, sister, and I all have the same ability to pick up an instrument and play.

The only intention I've ever had creatively, as a musician, is to be as different from myself as possible.

I like making sounds and putting it together, I'm not just a singer or a producer.

The reason I'm scared of flying is because I'm not in charge. Being so far out of control terrifies me.

I was put through piano lessons when I was a kid. I say 'put through' because it was fun and I loved it, and it's been beneficial now, but it was difficult because, although I can read music, I much prefer just playing and improvising and at least finding my own way to play an instrument.

It's amazing to be nominated for the Brits' Critics' Choice Award 2016. It's such a significant award that highlights the importance of new music, so it's a genuine honour to have been nominated alongside some other incredible new acts from the U.K.

The most important thing for me is to have as much control over what's going on in front of me as I possibly can, so because of that, I don't play to a click track, and I don't have anything on the grid. Everything is triggered by me. Everything is played by me. Everything is within my control.

I was studying primary school education. I was going to be a teacher. I was going to get my teaching qualification and have that as my safety net and then tackle the music industry.

Performing outside is always kind of strange. Usually, you can't hear something, whether it's your voice or instrument, but it's a fun challenge.

I get inspired by the sounds that evoke an emotion from me. That's what I am drawn to; that's what turns me on.

The best music is the music which brings out something of you that you didn't know was there before, or you did know was there but had avoided.

I spent my entire childhood going 'look at me, look at me, look at me,' before realising I needed someone to look at me for more than just what I was showing off for.

I got to a point when I was 20 that I dropped out of university because I felt I didn't have any purpose, and I wanted to find a fire in me.

I would sing around the house, and I would always play on things just because instruments were always there, but I didn't show any genius as a child. I wasn't a prodigy or anything like that.

I genre-hop quite a lot. I love manipulating genre and deconstructing it and making it irrelevant. Genreless music is great because it means you get to write in any genre that you like.

My mission is to just keep creating music. If it helps people in some way, then I'm doing the right thing.

I grew up with parents who really encouraged me to listen to as much music as I could.

I've always found myself to be most free and creatively open when I'm on my own.

Festivals are the best because you can't control anything, and for a control freak like me, that's a wonderful experience.

I wish I was a prolific writing wondrous boy genius - I wish I was Stevie Wonder - but I wasn't. I was me. I wrote terrible songs about girls I was head-over-heels about. As soon as a pretty girl looks at me, that's it - I'm in love, and I should probably write a song about it!

I got my first laptop, what I learned to do everything on, when I was 17 or 18, and I had no idea what I was doing. I'd only ever produced on an 8-track before. When I was about 13 and writing songs, I would write on that. It would literally be eight tracks, and that's all I had.

The 'Remnants' EP was the first time I got to really explore myself as a producer, and I got the insane idea of doing it on my own in my future career.

I've been naturally quick at learning things, and I learn by doing things, so if I sit beside someone who is actively doing something, I look at how they do it and absorb the way in which they do something and find my own comfortable way of reimagining that, or using certain techniques in my own way.

I don't listen to much music on the go because I tend either to be writing my own music or wanting a break from the music around me.

I want my music to sound good on whatever people are listening - laptop speakers, those crappy little white ones you get with your PC.

Tech gives people more opportunities to be themselves in front of other people. Sometimes that's great; sometimes it's bad.

I will have a playlist ready that I'll play out to the audience before I walk on stage, and I'll listen to that same playlist in the room, so by the time I walk on stage, I'm in the same frame of mind the audience is.

I believe that musical instruments are created because they are supposed to be played. There's not an instrument that's been designed to not be playable - it kind of defeats the point.

All I do is hope that someone feels something from listening to my music.

Who am I to sit here and say I'm going to change the face of music?

I find it hard to not like music if it has passion behind it and good integrity. Only if it's made for the wrong reasons and shows a lack of respect for its audience will I find something to dislike.

I am only interested in celebrating music.

I spent 19, 20 years of my life being terrified about what I looked like. I was a ginger white kid.

I enjoy the music I make because I have to - if I didn't, I wouldn't want to make it, and I wouldn't want it to be heard by other people.

When I was younger and played acoustic guitar music, I got a lot of Sheeran comparisons, along with guys like Paolo Nutini and James Morrison.

I find it really difficult to turn my head off. I find it difficult to zone out.

I watch cartoons a lot. I'm a big 'Rick and Morty' and 'South Park' fan.

I studied at university for a term and a day, and then I dropped out.

I just hope people enjoy 'Phase' as much as I've enjoyed making it. I hope it's a good reaction.

I wanted to be a teacher because that is all I knew. It was a great course on primary school education, in which I could specialise in music, but I ended up dropping out after I was honest with myself about what I really wanted to do with my life.

I don't want to write the song that I wrote yesterday, and I don't want to write the song I'm going to write tomorrow; I only write the music I'm writing now.

I hope that I am, in a way, helping and touching other people with my music, and being a musician and having this as a job gives me a sense of purpose beyond my own selfish needs.

I'm ultimately a perfectionist who doesn't believe in perfection.

There is a pressure, but my job essentially is not to listen to that pressure, not to buckle underneath that pressure, but instead to continue making music in the way that I have been making it.

Winning the BBC Music Sound Of 2016 poll has left me feeling pretty stunned at the end of one of the most emotionally and physically intense years of my life.

I found a way to connect with lots of instruments rather than just fixating on one of them. I just loved making noise on anything.

When I perform live, I'm doing a lot, but I kind of black out. I don't think about it too much.

The most difficult thing for me as an artist, as a creator of music, is lyrics. But everything else, I just do it.

People forget that, for example, Adele wasn't always the Adele we know. Sam Smith wasn't always the Sam Smith that we know.

I wanted to create a body of work that I was proud of. It's come from honesty and integrity, without forcing anything from myself, the ideas had to come instinctively and organically. Whether that translates to people in that way, it's kind of out of my hands now.