A biography for Sam Smithhasn’t been written yet.
“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 used to sing Chaka Khan tunes in the car with my mum when I was eight years old.”
“People say, 'He doesn't want to be a spokesperson for the gay community.' I do, of course I do, but I want to be a spokesperson for everyone. Ya know, straight people, gay people, bisexual. I don't want it to be limited.”
“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.”
“It's my job to have ups and downs because it makes good music.”
“Talking about my deepest and darkest secrets to the world makes me feel better. It's cathartic.”
“The U.K. is so important to me. It's everything - it's my home. I love America, but it's so important for me to be here and be an artist and be well known here.”
“I want to save duets and collaborations for outside of the album. With the albums, I like it just being me.”
“I find short, fast romances romantic. There's a beauty to dark imagery.”
“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.”
“When I'm performing, I'm not even thinking about the song. I'm thinking about the audience.”
“I hate it when guys wear really tight t-shirts. It's just so horrible, especially when you can see their bellies.”
“I just feel like people need role models, you know, that are dressed.”
“I don't want to make music that is hot now; I want to make music that is hot forever.”
“I don't sit there writing songs, thinking, 'This would be good for Rihanna.' I don't want to be pitching out like that.”
“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 made my music so that it could be about anything and everybody - whether it's a guy, a female or a goat - and everybody can relate to that.”
“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 don't go to celebrity parties a lot. I don't really enjoy them because I really like going for it in parties. And sometimes at celebrity parties, there is no dancing on tables because people... it can be a little judgmental at times. So I tend not to go unless it is Taylor Swift's birthday party; then it's amazing.”
“'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.”