“I'm lucky in the sense that I can write wherever I am - on the bus, in...” — Passenger Quote

“I'm lucky in the sense that I can write wherever I am - on the bus, in the hotel room, backstage, sitting at home.”

“I spent my life on the road touring, and a lot of the songs are written in tour buses and hotel rooms.”

“When I sat down with all the songs before recording, I realised I'd written a few songs specifically about places in America - there was this song about Detroit and another about Yellowstone National Park. My dad is actually American, so I wrote another song about that side of my family.”

“Ed Sheeran is a good mate of mine, and he just flies around the place doing every single bit of promo or gig or interview, and it's no wonder that when you combine that with immense talent that he's playing in stadiums and arenas around the world.”

“Maybe when I was a kid, when you have those crazy dreams about what music is going to be like - a string of No. 1 hits, a limo, and a fairground in your back garden - and then you start as a musician, and you realize very, very quickly, that's not how things work. So I just let go of all that stuff.”

“The backstage play, in which the private lives of theater people are put onstage for the world to see, is one of the diciest of dramatic genres.”

“When I used to do musical theatre, my dad refused to come backstage. He never wanted to see the props up close or the sets up close. He didn't want to see the magic.”

“I didn't know who Langston Hughes was till he met me backstage.”

“I ushered at the Shubert in New Haven during graduate school when plays en route to Broadway still went out of town to try out. I worked backstage at summer stock doing jobs from garbage man to strapping on Herbert Marshall's wooden leg to fixing Gloria Swanson's broken plumbing in her dressing room with her yelling at me as I worked the plunger.”

“When I wanted to be in a band, I never thought it might be hard for a girl. But I find myself sitting backstage at a festival sometimes thinking 'oh my God, I can't see any women at all.' That's insane.”

“My dad loves going backstage. I try not to have him give too many jokes to people.”