“I've grown up with a piano in the house, and that's where I started to...” — Gabrielle Aplin Quote

I've grown up with a piano in the house, and that's where I started to be able to learn things by ear. Guitar kind of happened, and I was using it just for writing at first. Then, I was writing so much that I began to realise that I knew how to play, and that's when I started getting nerdy about it.

I'm quite annoying and can't imagine what it would be like living with me 24/7.

I don't feel like a pop star. I like being able to live my life the same as my mates. I don't get recognised much.

I grew up listening to Nick Drake. Without him, I would not write music - and 'Pink Moon' is my favourite LP.

My father-in-law has ear hair like a wolverine. It fans out from the auricles, wafting from the ridge lines like cilia, like gray feathered plumage.

I want to win football games first and foremost. But I also want to be enlightened and educated on issues and just keep an open mind, keep a listening ear.

I listen to a lot of different music. I have a really open ear when it comes to music in general. I like everything. You have to. You have to know your history and learn everything you can, you know?

Some of the best cricketers in the world were very quiet on the field but came across in a way that made it very hard to sledge them. It went in one ear and out the other.