![]() ![]() I think that’s always the difficulty with happy songs. I think with upbeat songs, you’re always treading a very fine line between something really cool and something utterly cheesy and awful. ![]() You’re right, though, and the other artists you’ve spoken to I’d agree with: I tend to find the more melancholic songs easier to tap into and write. You know what, it wasn’t it was a really easy song to write it came out very naturally. Your new song “Anywhere” is a particularly upbeat one. Other artists have told us that sad songs are much easier to write than the upbeat ones. I think I’m a bit spoiled now, and have gotten a bit soft with my travel arrangements. I think it’s very difficult to go back to that type of stuff, I have to admit. It’s very difficult to remember back in the day. And then you have a bit of success, get a nice tour bus, fly a business class flight, and you get so used to it. I had no money when I was busking I would just try to get from A to B anyway I could. But I used to travel on trains-the least luxurious way of traveling ever. It’s funny, I do live out of a suitcase for weeks and weeks that’s the nature of touring. Do you like to travel in luxury, or are you a guy who can live out of a suitcase for weeks and weeks? The title was obviously taken from the song with the same name. Let’s talk about your fabulous new album. Those albums came out, when I was a teenager, and they opened things up for me. Because before White Ladder and O came out, it wasn’t cool at all, it wasn’t really relevant. ![]() When I was growing up, he and also Damien Rice came off the scene and really laid the way for singer-songwriters. Are you a fan of his work, and who are some of your contemporaries that you think everybody should be listening to right now? Your voice reminds us a lot of British artist David Gray. It could’ve literally been anyone on the planet, which is one of the coolest things … I’ve never thought about it, and that’s such a cool thing to be able to say. I think at this point, it’s completely impossible to try and understand who the video’s billionth fan was. We get messages from Kenya and the Philippines and Tibet-name any country, and we’ve gotten messages from it. When a song gets that big … it really has reached the absolute corners of the earth now, that song. Describe to me what you think your 1 billionth Passenger fan is like. The video for “Let Her Go” has also been viewed by well over 1 billion people on YouTube. So again, it’s not very cool, but it’s something that changed my life, and I’m very grateful for. I was just staying in people’s front rooms and at friend’s places and hostels, so I’ve been able to buy myself a house in my hometown of Brighton, and that was always the dream, man: to be able to do that. I drive a Volkswagen Golf, so yeah, I don’t really go overboard with the bling and the style, unfortunately. You didn’t even buy a car or something extravagant when you got your first royalty check from the record company? It’s more the experiences that the song has given me. I never really think about it in “owning” things. I’ve been able to go to these festivals and get on Jimmy Fallon and do all this amazing stuff that wouldn’t have happened without that song. As you say, it has opened doors, but I feel like there are many things that I’ve done because of that song. I don’t really think about it along those lines. What are a few things you own thanks to that song? We can imagine the song has opened some incredible doors for you as a songwriter. Onstage at Osheaga, you apologized for having just the one tune, “Let Her Go,” on the radio in Canada. I was playing, and at the end, this kid came up to me and asked me why I played so many Passenger covers. There was this really funny time in Australia. What’s one of your favorite busking stories? ![]() Busking must’ve helped calm your nerves a bit in terms of playing in front of throngs of people. ![]()
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