“It's such a hard thing to write a song for your fans without sounding ...” — Olly Murs Quote

It's such a hard thing to write a song for your fans without sounding naff and thanking them for spending money on you.

Like every artist that comes out, you want to make a mark; you want to be a household name and you want to be someone that people are going to look back in ten years/fifteen years' time and go, 'I love this guy Olly Murs. He was brilliant back in the day; he was someone I really, really liked.'

You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.

I am fortunate to stay at lots of lovely hotels when I'm on tour, but my favourite hotel group in Britain is Malmaison. I recently stayed at the Malmaison in Manchester, which was pretty amazing. It had a fabulous bar and restaurants, as well as fantastic rooms with mood lighting.

People say keeping it real is a hard thing to do. Keeping it real is easy. Being fake and being soft is hard to do.

It would probably take me an hour to two to write it down, get the feel of it, and that's with quite a few changes. It's not really a hard thing for me to do.

I don't think I'm unlike a lot of people. I am just someone who is trying to find that mate, and I think it's a really hard thing to do.

Being a parent is not a reasonable thing. It is a very hard thing. I am a parent and I know.

I'm always working out how people perceive me, and that's a hard thing to navigate sometimes.