Declan McKenna Quotes

Declan McKenna

Profession : Sculptor

Birth : December 24, 1998

One of the most annoying questions I get asked is, 'What do you think you'll write about next?' I don't know!

Declan McKenna

I have a lot of friends who don't identify as a boy or a girl. I myself don't identify as either straight or gay.

Declan McKenna

From my own perspective I think I'm always getting better, which is what you'd hope.

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Things have kept changing and developing. I don't think it can ever be exactly how you imagine it will be.

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When I was 9, I got guitar lessons in my school, just classical guitar. I didn't really like it much. Nowadays, I appreciate classical music a lot more than I did then.

Declan McKenna

I've always been really into blues guitar. I feel like that comes out a little bit in my guitar parts: country, blues sort of stuff, even if my music isn't technically that genre. I started out loving blues, wanting to be like a blues guitarist. I listened to B.B. King and Steven Walker. Steven Walker's one of my favorites.

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I like the generation that I'm part of.

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I write about things I care about, like any songwriter, whether it's a personal thing or not.

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There's definitely a love-hate relationship I think a lot of bands have with touring.

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I like talking about certain things, I like being vocal. But I couldn't see myself being full-fledged politician. I don't really see myself as the right person for that sort of thing. I think I would struggle in that line of work, but I definitely won't stop being vocal.

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I think people definitely shouldn't be ignorant in regards to where they're playing. And there's an argument for not taking it out on citizens or music fans in a country. But at the same time, if a production or a show is supporting a dangerous and corrupt government, then I don't know, it's hard to find an argument to want to do that.

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I was very independent through my teenage years, probably too independent I just got on with making music and getting it out on the Internet in any way I knew how. One thing led to another. Getting a career in music so young was always the dream, but it was also an accident.

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I was a happy child a lot of the time and my parents were always wanting to give me and my siblings the freedom to do what we wanted.

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The first place I ever landed in America was Tampa.

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I make songs based around my political ideas because they're a big part of life; politics affects my life, politics affects my friends and family's life.

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It's a difficult thing, breaking in America. A lot of bands who've been massive in the U.K. for years take much longer than that to break America. It's a big country.

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It would be unfair for me to be like, 'Yeah, I'm the voice of a generation.' I don't want that responsibility.

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I'm the youngest of six kids so I got the short straw in terms of bedrooms.

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I just want to pay off my family's mortgage.

Declan McKenna

There's only so much 'cool' you can try and pretend to be, before everyone realises you're not actually that cool.

Declan McKenna