Eliot Sumner
Eliot Sumner

Self-sufficiency is vitally important to my self-respect. I never wanted to rely on my parents in that way, because I knew that if I got used to it, I'd be reliant all my life.

Eliot Sumner
Eliot Sumner

In 2009, I fractured my skull in a freak accident at an L.A. restaurant. I suffered a seizure and was rushed into hospital. I was so out of it that I refused to let them scan my brain. My dad rushed to my bedside and talked me into having the CAT scan - he told me that I might die if I didn't go through with it.

Eliot Sumner
Eliot Sumner

I wear a lot of black. Like my heart.

Eliot Sumner
Eliot Sumner

It's difficult to explain exactly how I react to music, but if it makes me feel anything at all, then I'll have some kind of emotional relationship to it. That's what defines good music to me - if it makes me truly feel something.

Eliot Sumner
Eliot Sumner

I picked up the guitar when I was 4, and from then, I could never be bored.

Eliot Sumner
Eliot Sumner

Music is about self-expression and representing the times, and I think fashion is the same. It took me a long time to find my own style, both in terms of fashion and music.

Eliot Sumner
Eliot Sumner

It's always best to challenge yourself and go to a place out of your comfort zone.

Eliot Sumner
Eliot Sumner

With social networks these days, everyone needs to know everything all the time. But the problem is, people are so used to short snippets of information that no one has any attention span anymore. I don't, anyway.

Eliot Sumner
Eliot Sumner

I started listening to a lot of Jimi Hendrix and Neil Young when I was 8 or 9 years old - I had siblings that gave me good music instead of the crap that was on the radio in the '90s.

Eliot Sumner
Eliot Sumner

Being Sting's daughter hasn't kicked any doors open for me - he has had absolutely nothing to do with my career. It's all been down to me so far, and that's how I want to keep it.

Eliot Sumner
Eliot Sumner

I was somewhat of a mute at school, so people were quite scared!

Eliot Sumner
Eliot Sumner

I don't look into myself too much. I don't think I'm shy so much as a better listener than I am a speaker. I just really don't wish for attention.

Eliot Sumner
Eliot Sumner

I'm an extremist. I don't do things in halves. I don't moderate anything. That can be with work or with good things as well. But often, I take it a bit too far.

Eliot Sumner
Eliot Sumner

With a band I feel stronger. It's not just me and my weird thoughts.

Eliot Sumner
Eliot Sumner

I'm very much a creature of habit. I don't like to try to new things.

Eliot Sumner
Eliot Sumner

I write most of my stuff when I'm on a train or a plane, any mode of transport. I like trains because you hear this motoric rhythm and the scenery is great. You go into your own little world. You don't have to be anywhere else.

Eliot Sumner
Eliot Sumner

I sometimes suffer from insomnia, and one of the first times it ever happened, I was like, 'I don't know what to do with myself,' so I started writing a song, and by morning, it was finished. It was about how I couldn't sleep... I was 14.

Eliot Sumner
Eliot Sumner

My French is terrible, and my Spanish is even worse. I find Spanish really difficult. They speak so quickly, whereas in German, it's very clear what they're saying. It's easier to repeat.

Eliot Sumner
Eliot Sumner

I try to read, but my attention span is so bad, and ever since Netflix was invented, that's all I do in my spare time, which is really bad, but it's like a chore to read for me.

Eliot Sumner
Eliot Sumner

I like to move around. It suits me. I grew up in Wiltshire on a farm, and that's the only place I call home.