Lewis Capaldi

“Even the idea of people paying to hear me shouting into a microphone for an hour is alien to me - and I hope it always will be.”

“If you don't feel comfortable talking about really personal things in your music, you shouldn't do it. There's plenty of other things to write about.”

“Anything I wrote before the age of 17 is probably worth putting a pin in and moving on.”

“My goal was to play 350-capacity rooms in the U.K. and, if I was lucky, 100-capacity rooms in Europe. I just wanted to play music and make money off it.”

“I played a lot of pubs, and some were a bit rougher than others, but once you got on, it was the same reception everywhere.”

“I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel. I'm just writing songs that I like, and that's where I've always come from.”

“I had never released any music until 'Bruises' came out when I was 20.”

“I get lots of requests from people to write sad songs, and I'm like, 'No, that's rubbish patter.'”

“If you're writing about what you're feeling about something, then you're in good stead.”

“The first artist whose music I really got into was Paolo Nutini. When his album 'Sunny Side Up' came out, I think I listened to it on repeat for, like, six months.”

“I wanna be as transparent as possible. I'm not a serious guy.”

“Trust me, I do not have an online strategy.”

“It's such a weird thing nowadays, too, when people are fans of the songs and not the bands.”