James Blunt claims that boarding schools breed great songwriters - like himself, obviously - because they induce "intense" emotions when a child is separated from his or her parents. Blunt says that he recalls these emotions every time he writes a song, adding: "Being sent away to boarding school at seven is as great an inspiration as any songwriter could have - to be taken away from one's family and locked away for 10 years".
Elsewhere in Blunt ramblings, the singer songwriter has been hitting out at the demise of the album format as radio and download platforms favour single tracks. Blunt: "We have lost the interest and ability to find albums and look at what musicians create. We make albums and yet radio requires singles [that] are three minutes and 30 seconds long, so there won't be another 'Stairway To Heaven' released as a single. The digital world makes it difficult to buy an album and easier to buy a single. We'll miss the new 'Bohemian Rhapsody'". Some might argue that any more than three minutes and thirty seconds of Blunt's warbling in any one sitting would be more than anyone should take, but we wouldn't.