Lewis Capaldi

“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.”

“I saw Marti Pellow in pantomime in Glasgow one time.”

“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.”

“I've been ghosted by all four members of Little Mix.”

“When I first started out, they were like, 'Is there anybody that you like that you want to work with, and we'll see what we can do?' And I went, 'I like Malay,' who's Frank Ocean's producer, and they were like, 'Not going to happen.' It did seem so, like, high-in-the-sky sort of thing, do you know what I mean? It still does, that it happened.”

“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.”

“People take music too seriously.”

“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.”

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

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

“I'll be on Tinder until the day I die.”

“Trust me, I do not have an online strategy.”

“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.”

“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 like talking to anyone that will listen.”

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

“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 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.”

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

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