Lewis Capaldi

“I was born in Glasgow and brought up in a place in between Glasgow and Edinburgh called West Lothian!”

“I was doing a wee gig at the Edinburgh Fringe, and while I was walking down to the show from the train station, someone stopped and asked if they could get a picture with me. This was about...”

“My eldest brother is six years older than me.”

“Doing a festival in Hong Kong was special, looking out and seeing this massive crowd and the city.”

“I always wanted to play festivals more than anything in Scotland.”

“Everyone always tells you about how amazing recording their first album was and how they'll always look back on the 'process' with fond memories. I will look back on it as an extremely stres...”

“Even if 'Bruises' had done a fraction of what it did, I would have thought that was class.”

“I started off playing my own songs, just because I saw it as a means to an end almost of, 'Right, if you want to play gigs, you have to write your own songs.' I mean, they were absolutely te...”

“When I was, like, 17 or 18 and didn't really have anything I needed to buy, we would do these pub gigs for some cash and would usually just spend our wage back in the pub immediately after.”

“I saw Marti Pellow in pantomime in Glasgow one time.”

“When I was about 9, my brother, who's six years older than me, started getting guitar lessons, and I wouldn't say that it inspired me to pick up an instrument: it was more me being like, 'We...”

“It's when I'm playing a headline show I feel weird, 'cause I don't know how to react to people coming out to see me.”

“In hindsight, I think my manager and I both knew that 'Someone You Loved' was a special song that we had to put out. But no one was expecting it to do so well.”

“I don't think writing open-ended lyrics is necessarily an important part of writing good pop songs.”

“Having lots of human interaction online and during shows is very important to me.”

“A lot of people say that 'the best songs fall into your lap' and that they're the easiest ones to write and take the shortest amount of time: I wholeheartedly disagree with that.”

“I see all these posts saying, 'I met Lewis Capaldi,' and in the picture, I look like a melting hippo.”

“The first time I played in front of a live audience, I realised I wanted to be a musician. I was about four years old and had always liked music.”

“It doesn't matter how big the shows are, as long as I'm making a living playing music. That's all that matters to me.”

“Playing live and making a living from music was always the only goal.”