Thinking of Rob   It's all about Robert Pattinson

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SG: So your musi­cal begin­nings were friends and family-based, and then so were your first big steps out into wider acclaim—outside Lon­don, out into the world, with your school­mate Robert (Pattinson)…

SB: It’s still all friend-based. I don’t work with any­one that isn’t a friend. My band, my book­ing agent, my man­ager… Every­one I want to work with, I want to have a rela­tion­ship that is stronger than just work. As far as the con­nec­tion with Rob, he’s a friend—that’s it. There’s no spe­cial story. The spe­cial story is in our friend­ship. That’s it. There’s noth­ing grand about it. I got a song on this Twi­light soundtrack—that opened up a big­ger audi­ence than I was ready for, per­haps, and then it was up to me to keep the music-lovers, and expand and grow on and through and past and with that.

SG: I can’t let you go and not go back to Rob for one final ques­tion, but I don’t want to get you into any trou­ble…
SB: You can’t get me into trou­ble. I can get me into trouble.

SG: Good point. But I’ll try not to lead you into any trou­ble.
SB: That’s fine, because I can deflect. I’ve been doing it for years.

SG: I bet you have. You’ve been mates for a long, long time. As sur­real as life must be for him, which is up way up there, you have seen that from one step removed, and you have a sense of what that means as you’re an artist on the road con­nect­ing with peo­ple as well although maybe not quite to the “Bea­t­les run­ning down the street in ‘Help’” thing that he’s been going through. What does that leave you think­ing? From what you’ve seen from him, what impact does that have on you? Does that end up being a blessing—you get to see how that can be from a pseudo-safe distance?

SB: If I thought about it and if I dis­sected it in any way, that wouldn’t be a healthy thing. It just is. There’s no dif­fer­ence in any­thing I do. There’s no dif­fer­ence in any­thing he does. There’s no dif­fer­ence in any­thing any friend I have, whether it be my wife… It just doesn’t make a dif­fer­ence. I’m gonna keep doing what I’m gonna do. Robert Pat­tin­son is going to keep doing what he’s gonna do. Tom Stur­ridge is gonna keep doing what he’s gonna do. Bobby Long is gonna keep doing what he’s gonna do. Mar­cus Fos­ter is gonna keep doing what’s he’s gonna do. Angus McNe­ice is gonna keep doing what he’s gonna do. Any­one I know are gonna do what they’re gonna do, and that’s not changed anything.

You can read the full tran­script of Sam’s inter­view at the.source