Top 50 Lewis Capaldi Quotes

People like Sam Cooke and Otis Redding – I do not put myself in that category.

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

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.

I’ll be on Tinder until the day I die.

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

I never set out to have a No. 1 single, not at all, man.

I did my HNC and my HND at college in Motherwell, and the plan I had was to do third year at uni and then to try and get into teaching.

I’m just a wee, chubby boy that happens to sing songs.

A top 100 single was never on the cards for me, really, like in my own head.

I’d be up for the ‘Bond’ theme, and I’d put my name forward for the lead role. If they want a wee, chubby guy from Scotland, then I’m their man.

I have been gigging around Glasgow and Edinburgh since I was 12. I played in pubs at that age, even though I obviously was too young to be in them. So I used to hide in bathrooms, come out and play my set, then get the hell out as quickly as possible.

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.

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 terrible.

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

My mum and dad have made Twitter accounts, and they will send me links if there is a bad review and tell me they’ll find out where the reviewer lives.

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 saw Marti Pellow in pantomime in Glasgow one time.

I like talking to anyone that will listen.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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’ve been ghosted by all four members of Little Mix.

People take music too seriously.

For me, I feel most at home when I’m playing live.

I’ve got quite a loud voice.

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

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

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, ‘Well, if he’s getting guitar lessons, then so am I. I’m not missing out,’ type of thing.

It’s the actual recording of the vocal that is the most boring thing you’ll ever do in your life.

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

If you’re writing about what you’re feeling about something, then you’re in good stead.

Why would you want a picture with a wee, chubby guy from Bathgate? I just don’t understand my appeal.

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 think soul singers are much better singers than I am.

I think if you don’t expect anything from the world, you’ll have a lovely time.

I used to do covers gigs that would be 90 minutes, with a 30 minute break, then another 90.

I had gigged so much from the age of 11 to 20 that I got to a stage where I actually got less nervous the bigger the gig. But you need those butterflies: they make you feel alive.

If you take yourself too seriously, something like a bad review could put you off your stride.

I never thought I’d get to the point where I’d be able to release a proper album, and I absolutely never thought that when I did, I would give it a name as stupid I have, but here we are.

I want to prove myself.

The sooner you start writing songs, the sooner you’ll get better.

Trust me, I do not have an online strategy.

The fact you have to pay 50p to use the loo in some places is the root of the world’s issues.

For me, there’s bands like Frightened Rabbit and The View, and they’ve all had that Scottish accent. It’s just class to hear it.

My star will probably continue to rise, and I will start hanging out with Beyonce and Jay-Z and take them to a Toby Carvery.

I would love to do something with Bill Withers just because I think he’s next-level, just so, so class!

I like social media.