Will Young
Will Young
William Robert "Will" Youngis an English singer-songwriter and actor who came to prominence after winning the 2002 inaugural series of the British music contest Pop Idol, making him the first winner of the worldwide Idol franchise. His double A-sided debut single "Anything Is Possible" / "Evergreen" was released two weeks after the show's finale and became the fastest-selling debut single in the UK. Young also came in fifth place in World Idol performing his single "Light My Fire"...
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth20 January 1979
CityWokingham, England
Give a hippie too much money and anything can happen.
The devil fools with the best laid plans.
I'll go for things that I know are going to be wrong, with a vengeance
My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.
Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record.
As soon as you start talking about mystique, you have none.
When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.
Live music is better.
I look at radio as gone … Piracy is the new radio, that’s how music gets around.
Faith is not reason's labour, but repose.
People who agree with you already agree with you -- you don't change peoples minds.
All these people talking about morality should just take a walk downtown. They don't want to go downtown because instantly they see homeless people and they don't want to.
I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore it.
As important as the funds are, the vision is the greatest gift.