Top 55 Sam Smith Quotes

I don’t want to think about what I’m doing in 20 years. All I want is I want to be happy, and I hope my family are healthy. And that’s all, really.

I don’t sit there writing songs, thinking, ‘This would be good for Rihanna.’ I don’t want to be pitching out like that.

If we’re going to go really deep, we’re all trying to live forever. My music is my way of doing that.

‘Stay With Me,’ for me, is my own personal anthem to the ‘walk of shame…’ that we’ve all gone through. It’s the feeling after a one-night stand of not wanting that person to leave, even if you don’t love them and don’t even like them. It’s about having that body next to you.

I’m just very body-conscious. Sometimes I’m really proud that I don’t look like other pop stars. But there’s also moments where I’m like, ‘Ugh, I wish I had abs like Bieber.’

My cross earrings are a mini statement; I wear them every day! My whole dream is to be iconic, and the way you dress yourself is so important.

I used to get very angry as I was getting older, because my voice was breaking. So I’ve trained my voice so religiously through my teenage years, because I wanted to be able to hit the notes that those females hit. And I can, which is great.

My music is almost like vomit! It’s a horrible way to put it, but I feel it, I say it, and I doubt myself all the time throughout my whole life, but when it comes to music, I just don’t. I don’t doubt myself.

Some artists get so comfortable now after even one or two albums and think, ‘I’m the biggest artist in the world,’ but it’s like, yeah, you are for now, but you’ve gotta work so that you’re remembered further, and that’s what I’m trying to do.

Music is to give, share.

As a kid, I collected ‘Vogue’ every month for three years.

I don’t want to make music that is hot now; I want to make music that is hot forever.

Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, ‘I guess it’s true I’m not good at a one-night stand,’ you know, I just can’t explain the feeling. It’s unreal. You feel like you’ve just read your diary to thousands of people and they’ve gone, ‘It’s okay. We still love you.’

I loved things like Destiny’s Child, and Amy Winehouse’s first record came out when I was 11 years old. But as a young, young child, I was just surrounded by Stevie Wonder, Whitney Houston, Chaka Khan – just massive, soulful voices.

It’s my job to have ups and downs because it makes good music.

I believe in God, but I don’t know what it is – if it’s a he, she, a he-she, or anything. Who knows what it is. All I know is that I feel like there’s something else there.

I’m not a really religious person, but those moments onstage feel like some sort of religious experience because no one holds back, especially ‘Stay With Me’ when I finish the show. It kind of turns into an anthem when I perform it live, and it feels like there’s a lot of love in the room.

I’m really scared of flying. Like, really, really, really scared.

I’m addicted to making music, but I don’t want to do it forever. I just want a farm. Farms make you happy.

I’m a melancholy person. It’s how I’m always going to be.

Even now I doubt myself. I don’t understand what people hear in my voice. I can’t hear it myself, if you know what I mean.

I find short, fast romances romantic. There’s a beauty to dark imagery.

Sound-wise, I’m really limitless in the way I write songs. Whatever comes out, comes out. Every song is completely different.

I don’t understand why you have to wear a wedding ring to warn people off. You should be able to be faithful to that person without anything on your body to show that you are with someone.

My plan is just to love harder than I’ve ever loved before, hide nothing, and embrace that I’m an imperfect human being. Oh, and sadness – sadness is everything.

I want to be a voice for that: just because I’ve lost weight doesn’t mean that I’m happy and content with my body. Because of the media, and because of what I feel I should look like, it’s always going to be a battle in my head.

I don’t have any problem with being the guy whose album people put on when they’re feeling sad.

People need songs to belt out in the shower. Even if everyone else doesn’t need that, I need that.

I don’t think about whether it’s gonna be a dance record or a ballad or anything when I’m making music. I sit in the studio and I think, ‘How am I feeling today?’ and I write how I feel. It’s really, really simple.

I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.

When I was at school and wasn’t having a great time or when music wasn’t going very well, I would eat, eat. Eating would make me feel better; when I felt lonely, I would eat.

I can’t relate to skinny, perfectly sculptured, tanned men singing about gold chains and Ferraris because I’m not that way.

I used to love going to the garden centre as a kid. It made me feel relaxed.

I just feel like people need role models, you know, that are dressed.

Anything’s possible. If I turn round tomorrow and say I want to be a spaceman, I could do that. You can do whatever you want to do.

When I find the right person, nothing else will matter, but I’m prepared to kiss a lot of frogs.

I get really self-conscious about people staring at me. It sounds so weird. As a performer, as an artist, these should be the things that I’m used to. But that’s not the case. When people stare at me, I freak out.

I started off doing theater as a kid, and I always played a character. I hid behind the script and was told where to go. But to actually perform as yourself is very difficult. I didn’t used to enjoy it, but now I do.

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.

When I write sad songs, I feel like I’m sewing up a scar in me, and the outcome always feels so much better than when I write happy ones.

There is a way to share an insight into your personal life without being classless, which is what I’m trying to do.

My main incentive now is to be so successful that I can get a private jet and sit with the pilot. I got upgraded to first class the other week, but even there I was still scared. I could be massaged for the whole flight and still think I’m going to die.

I did musical theatre for about four years. One time, I did six shows in one year whilst juggling school.

My debut album is just a diary from a lonely 21-year-old. That’s what it is.

I’ve listened to female vocalists my whole life. That’s what I love. I still listen to guys’ vocals and don’t get taken aback a lot.

I’ve never been in a relationship before. I’ve only been in unrequited relationships where people haven’t loved me back. I guess I’m a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.

Food is my favourite thing in the world. I always say if I ate what I actually wanted to eat I’d be in one of those electronic scooters because I’d be too big.

I have a weird and undying love for George Michael. He’s the reason why I want to do what I do.

I hate it when guys wear really tight t-shirts. It’s just so horrible, especially when you can see their bellies.

I’ll be excited when I get my heart broken properly for the first time. I’ll be like, ‘Thank God I’ve experienced something. Someone wanted to kiss me.’ That’s when it’s going to be interesting: When you break up, they’re taking a piece with them.

I want to make the music that’s not there anymore. I’m so passionate about the singing voice… What I’m trying to do actually with my album is show that it’s my voice that’s leading. It’s my voice that’s the instrument.

I’m a very ambitious person. I’ve been like this from a very young age. As early as 12 years old, I used to have panic attacks because I needed to know my life plan.

I’m a huge Gaga fan. I have been since I was a kid. I actually camped out overnight to see Gaga when I was 17 years old in London.

I will sing happy songs, and I do sing happy songs, but the stuff that’s going to move me and going to make me close my eyes is always the blues.

We want people to listen to records, to a whole body of music. I want you to buy into my life, not just one subject in my life.