DUFFY


Your new album ‘Endlessly’ is out, are you excited by it? Do you see this as the next step in your career?


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think the next few years in my life are going to be the telling years as to who I truly become as an artist. It’s one thing being catapulted on the public scene and the people’s consciousness, it’s another thing really setting your mark as you develop through the years. So, yes, I’m very excited because I really think this record solidifies certain parts of myself that I’ve needed to solidify.


So do you think it’s more of a personal record this time?


I don’t know. I don’t know about being a personal record, I don’t think there is such a thing. I think you’re so emotionally engaged and emotionally involved in what you do as an artist when you write the songs. I don’t know if it’s more personal but of course through the experiences I’ve had, I’ve possibly learnt to become a bit more eloquent on how I say things more directly, that’s something that I feel as though I’ve experienced.


Would you say, with the success of ‘Rockferry’, that you have become more confident in your abilities as a performer and a songwriter?


I think you become more convicted, but whether or not you become more confident I’m unsure of, I don’t think I will ever be confident, I think that would make me too self assured. Being confident as an artist is a dangerous quality.


You’re working with Albert Hammond, how did you find that experience? The man is a living legend…


For me it was just like a wild card. Who knew that we were going to write a whole record together. It was just a chance meeting, we sat together and thought ok, hi, how are you? It was never set in stone that we were going to become the best of friends and so I look back and think, wow, such an important introduction and I just didn’t realise


how important this character was going to become in my life. The person that I would share such an important experience with, where I would be able to carve out so many different elements of myself.


I think, at times, when I look through my life, I have been alone. I have consciously been alone and gone to places alone. I travelled from Wales to London to go and work with Bernard. I would go to New York alone to meet people out there, all these different things and always alone. I never felt alone with Albert, I never did. I felt as though I was in the hands of someone truly exceptional.


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