Sam Smith Quotes

1. A good pop song is a song that anybody can sing, even if you're tone-deaf or you don't even speak English. A good pop song is a song that everyone from every walk of life can sing it and can feel it.  






2. I would like to thank the man that this album is about. By breaking my heart, you won me four Grammys!

3. My mum and dad used to make me stand up at dinner parties and sing to their friends. I had this conservatory in my house - three steps went to up to kind of a raised part of our kitchen. I used it as the stage. Every night after school I used to download backing tracks of songs I loved and perform to myself. My mum was trying to cook and I was pretending I was at the O2 arena.






4. I fell in love with someone who didn't love me back.

5. I did musical theater shows when I was younger, like 13 years old. I did do "South Pacific". I was just in the chorus, a bit chubby with glasses, singing.

6. I used to love singing Norah Jones because her voice was low enough and I could really go for it. I attempted the Britney tunes, but that was when my voice hadn't broken.  Suddenly it broke and I couldn't sing them anymore. That was upsetting. I love pop music and current music.

7. I think a lot of people don't wear their hearts on their sleeves. I think people should, but a lot of people don't. People may be a bit taken back sometimes about how honest I am and how open I am. (But) I'm happier this way - it's a good thing for me.

8. (on his acoustic songs) I feel like it allows you to listen to the lyrics. Take "Latch," for example. The beat that Disclosure made is just unbelievable, and when you listen to that version it make you want to dance; it makes you want to go crazy, and it's euphoric. Whereas I feel like the acoustic version tells the other story of the song, and that is a beautiful love song. It shows the sentimental side, which sometimes doesn't cut through when there's a massive beat behind the track.

9. I used to sing Chaka Khan tunes in the car with my mum when I was eight years old. 



10. I actually have OCD really bad, and it's getting a bit worse at the moment. I have to check taps...before I leave the house, to make sure I've checked everything in case it floods.

11. I'm so reliant. I'm so dependent. I'm such a fool.

12. Love is probably the strongest emotion you can have and I think it's relatable to absolutely everyone, whether it's unrequited love or love.




13. I basically got introduced to a man called Jimmy Napes, who's an incredible songwriter, and I co-write most of my stuff with him. He wrote "Latch" with me. We wrote "Latch" (during) our first ever session. It was incredible.

14. As a youngster when I started writing and stuff, I did actually write more from other people's perspectives. When I hit 18 and something happened to me that hurt me, I discovered that writing the truth is really therapeutic and amazing. Every single one of my songs is about something very personal to me and I could tell anyone what it's about, each song. Like a diary, basically.

15. My mum and dad got me singing lessons with a local jazz singer.

16. I get ready to film music sometimes - probably because I'm so dramatic. I'm just pretending I'm in a film. It got me ready for the day.


17. Too much of a good thing, won't be good for long.

18. A few years ago I had a weird relationship with performing live. I didn't enjoy it as much because the nerves took over. My first ever gig was with Disclosure at Bestival. There were so many people, thousands and thousands of people. It's been an amazing start to my live shows, to experience that type. My only aim (when I) perform with those guys is to make sure the crowd has the best time. You hype them up. The energy is crazy. It's completely different, but I need both of them because I love dance music, but I also love soul music and slower, acoustic stuff.

19. My favorite soundtrack is "Avatar". It's the best thing in the world. I love it.











20. The thing is I've trained for a long time. I loved singing. It was more my hobby, my love.

21. Before I started writing my album, I didn't tell people many things. But because I'm going to the studio every day and telling strangers my deepest and darkest emotions, it's made me more of an open book. I wear my heart on my sleeve a lot more now than I did.

22. I used to have a little whisky before I went on stage. I realized that could have slowly turned into something a bit more serious. I get hyped up. I also think doing it a lot, you get used to it. You get more confidence. It's confidence building, really.

23. I have one song called "Leave Your Lover," which is that emotion at its rawest. I can't wait for people to hear it. When I was going through that, instead of searching for songs by other artists to relate to I could listen to my own music. I'd do a song in the studio and it would explain everything I'm going through so perfectly that when I went home and I felt down I could listen to that to make me feel better. It's a documentation of my life. I think it's just important to put it out there.

24. My album focuses on unrequited love quite a lot because I don't think it's spoken about enough in music. I've been through it myself and I found it hard to find songs that were about that, so I've definitely tried to make that a part of my album.

25. (on his influences) It's all I listened to. I actually didn't listen to male vocalists until about two years ago. I just listened to Whitney Houston, Chaka Khan. Massive voices.




26. (on his song "Nirvana") There were four of us in the room and we all wrote it about things individually. It's about doing something at nighttime, one night, and not worrying commitment or worrying about anything else in life. It's about something - a person, a thing - taking over you and taking you to somewhere just for a little bit.


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