Lewis Capaldi

It's when I'm playing a headline show I feel weird, 'cause I don't know how to react to people coming out to see me.

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.

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.

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

I was born in Glasgow and brought up in a place in between Glasgow and Edinburgh called West Lothian!

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.

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.

I would have been happy being in a wedding band.

I never set out to have a No. 1 single, not at all, man.

If you're writing about what you're feeling about something, then you're in good stead.

I don't think writing open-ended lyrics is necessarily an important part of writing good pop songs.

I never thought I'd get to the point where I'd be able to release a proper album, and I absolutely never thought that when I did, I would give it a name as stupid I have, but here we are.