Lewis Capaldi quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

Trust me, I do not have an online strategy.

I would have been happy being in a wedding band.

I think you just have to be yourself instead of catering your sound to a specific audience, make the music you want to make, and the audience will find you.

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 stressful time that somehow also managed to be extremely boring.