A biography for Jorja Smithhasn’t been written yet.
“I need to get a tiny bit more 'woke.'”
“Sometimes I feel people try to be too complex. Some of the greatest songs are so simple. The simplest phrases.”
“I like a new challenge.”
“Both my parents have been big influences on me wanting to do music. My mum's always been, 'Just do it. Just sing.'”
“I just make my music. It's not too complicated.”
“I don't like setting goals - I don't like to be disappointed.”
“With make-up, I much prefer my natural face. I'm confident with myself like that, but when I wear make-up, I like to look like myself. I love dewy skin, a matte lip, and a bad highlight!”
“So many people can tell me, 'You're amazing,' rather, but I don't think it. You know, so, I don't go around thinking this. I'm really hard on myself. I think that's quite good.”
“I left Starbucks in 2015. When I was younger, I remember looking at Justin Bieber and wishing I had all these fans, but you know what? Everyone has their path, everyone's path is different, and this is where mine's going. I just didn't want to work at Starbucks. I wanted to be writing music all the time.”
“I love anything about love.”
“When I'm writing, I'll just say random stuff that doesn't make sense, and then a certain word that I keep saying will stick out, and I'll write from there.”
“I wanted to be pale. I didn't wanna go in the sun, because I was in school with a lot of white girls. I remember one girl said to me, 'You look better pale.' And I was like, 'Well, you're tan!' She was like, 'It's not the same.'”
“I make music because it helps me. I feel better after I've written a song. I listen to my own songs, and they make me feel and think about stuff I'd done or someone said to me, and I feel a bit better.”
“I used to watch a programme about Route 66 in America, and it looked so fun.”
“With a label, pressure is added. Being independent, you don't feel a lot of pressure.”
“There's always been music in my house growing up. In the kitchen, there's a speaker, and we'd always have my mum's iPod in it - she never makes food without listening to music. And I used to watch 'Top of the Pops' with my dad.”
“Chill? I can't chill. I find it so difficult to sit still.”
“The first song I wrote was when I was 11. It was called 'Life Is a Path Worth Taking.'”
“Sometimes I observe stuff I haven't been through and write about it. I used to walk my dog with these 50-year-olds, and they'd tell me stories I could use.”
“I'm not gonna just disappear after one album.”