Eliot Paulina Sumner Quotes

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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 try to read, but my attention span is so bad, and ever since Netflix was invented, that’s all I do in my spare time, which is really bad, but it’s like a chore to read for me.

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.

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

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.