Top 40 Calum Scott Quotes

As many of you know, my story begins where most people’s in the LGBT+ community begins… with fear. I knew I was different from my peers, my friends, and those around me when I started to discover who I was and who I identified as from a young age.

‘If Our Love Is Wrong’ is, quite simply, my coming out song, as I was trying to wrap my head around my sexuality and was starting to learn about songwriting, and that my honesty and my authenticity came from my personal experiences and writing about stuff that genuinely bugged me or upset me.

There are a lot of songs about love and how it starts, whether that’s realizing it yourself or coming to find it later on – but no sort of talk about the actual feelings that are created from love and passion.

If you’re real, you’ve never got anything to hide away from. You’re not trying to fake anything, you’re not trying to have this other persona – you’re just yourself. And if I could be myself for as long as possible, I will.

I’d gone through life being obsessed about my sexuality. People would ask about relationships, girlfriends, you start referring to people as ‘they’ so there’s no judgment and you can be ambiguous. People around me knew, but I still struggled with talking about it openly.

I have worked with a lot of people, all very different creatives, helping me hone my craft and discover myself as an artist and the record I want to make. It’s such an amazing process seeing and hearing the tracks that people could eventually be listening to on my debut album!

I remember when we were going to release ‘Dancing On My Own,’ and I went into the record label crying to them that I was terrified people wouldn’t support me anymore if they knew I was gay.

It is important for me to tell my story so that others feel comfortable telling theirs.

Being honest to who I am led me to write ‘If Our Love Is Wrong,’ and that allowed me to fully realize the direction I should be heading to – human nature, real emotions, and issues about LGBT.

I feel very privileged to do what I do, so I’m just going to keep working hard and enjoy every minute of it because it could be over just like that.

My mates who are younger than me are all slagging me for it – saying I am so much older and my crow’s feet are showing.

I was suppressed for many years. From the outside, you’d think I had a very normal life.

‘Britain’s Got Talent’ just gave me that platform that I needed to share that with the world and be recognized, and now I’m able to travel the world and sing my music in places I never thought I’d visit – Dubai, Mexico, Brazil, so many different places.

I’d gone from being a normal HR worker from Hull to being recognised in the street, being on TV. As much as it was exciting, thrilling, and a big, huge adrenaline rush.

I would say I am one of those people who just love to connect to people doing something I love. Can’t lie, love a ballad, so expect big, powerful, emotive stuff from me!

I just wanted to sing, to get my voice heard. I knew I had to do everything possible to stay in the industry.

I was so terrified for so long about what people think about my sexuality, and I didn’t wanna find myself in a position where I was losing my fans and couldn’t do my job.

It takes a lot of emotional high and struggles to write songs.

I’d like to think I’m a versatile artist without straying too far from who I am.

The creative process has been a little bit of an experience, really – to try and make that work for me. The only way I know how to do that is just to remain genuine, humble, and true to everything I know already in my life.

I will continue to be open in my music and in interviews and keep those conversations going about the issues we face as an LGBT+ community until those conversations no longer need to be had.

I purposely didn’t change the pronouns in ‘Dancing On My Own’ so that it was from a gay man’s perspective.

I am doing something I love, travelling the world, meeting fans, feeling confident, and I am no longer restricted by my sexuality.

The amount of people that have said, ‘You’ve inspired me to be confident. I’ve come out to my friends because of you,’ that reduces me to tears every time, because I’m just, like, little old me from Hull has had an implication on somebody’s life. That’s massive to me. Massive.

I met a guy, and we were seeing each other for about a month or so, but as it got more intense, I started to freak out a little bit. I hadn’t been in a relationship for quite a while, and I just said I was going away and not sure if it was going to work.

I used to work full time in an office, hiding away in my desk. Now, I have the opportunity to do something I love. And every day is a dream come true for me. I’m just generally grateful for all the love and support, and I will continue to give my 101 percent.

I’m single, which is good because I can concentrate the hell out of my performances. At some point, I’m going to want to find someone to chill out with at the end of the night and talk about things.

‘No Matter What’ is, without question, the most personal song I have ever written and the one I am most proud of.

The heart wants what it wants, and you know, if you’re not careful, you can find yourself in a situation where you give your heart away, and it can get broken.

I had to be honest in my songwriting for it to be where it is, and it’s always scary wondering if anyone will connect with that.

Song writing has been a lifeline for me.

I’d always been a little bit uncomfortable talking about my sexuality just because it took me a while to fully accept it. I had a bit of traumatic time with my friends when I was younger, and it kind of just put me off talking about it.

Two gay guys doing a beautiful duet – I think it would just be so powerful, you know.

I started to feel songwriting was pulling different pieces of my heart out – the more I started writing, the more there was honesty.

I’m kind of unlucky in love and I have, for some reason, always fallen for the straight guy.

I’m very keen on making the world a better place, whether that’s changing people’s attitudes or giving people the confidence to be who they are.

I had told one of my friends that I felt like I might be gay or that I just wasn’t into girls, and I was abandoned.

I am so confident and empowered by my sexuality; it plays an enormous part in my life.

I’ve used songwriting as a tool, I’ve used it as a way of being able to talk about how I feel.

I cannot thank the LGBT+ community enough for their support, for their love, for their acceptance, and for the first time in a letter, I am incredibly proud to say that I am gay and have never been happier.