Quotes from Lewis Capaldi

I saw Marti Pellow in pantomime in Glasgow one time.

It's the actual recording of the vocal that is the most boring thing you'll ever do in your life.

I'm under no illusion. There are lots of male singers out there with raspy voices.

People take music too seriously.

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.

When I was, like, 17 or 18 and didn't really have anything I needed to buy, we would do these pub gigs for some cash and would usually just spend our wage back in the pub immediately after.

When I was 13, I went on 'Britain's Got Talent.' I auditioned. I sang a cover of a song called 'White Blank Page' by Mumford & Sons.

Anything I wrote before the age of 17 is probably worth putting a pin in and moving on.

I wanna be as transparent as possible. I'm not a serious guy.

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

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

The fact you have to pay 50p to use the loo in some places is the root of the world's issues.

My goal was to play 350-capacity rooms in the U.K. and, if I was lucky, 100-capacity rooms in Europe. I just wanted to play music and make money off it.

I would have been happy being in a wedding band.

I was doing a wee gig at the Edinburgh Fringe, and while I was walking down to the show from the train station, someone stopped and asked if they could get a picture with me. This was about six months before I released my first single as well, so my response was, 'Are you sure?'

I'm just a wee, chubby boy that happens to sing songs.

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.

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

I see all these posts saying, 'I met Lewis Capaldi,' and in the picture, I look like a melting hippo.

If you don't feel comfortable talking about really personal things in your music, you shouldn't do it. There's plenty of other things to write about.

It's such a weird thing nowadays, too, when people are fans of the songs and not the bands.

I would have been happy teaching music in schools - I still would be, and I still might be, although I don't know if I'm clever enough.

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.

If it's just going to go in my body, then I don't want fancy things in my body. I just want regular things in my body.