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I've got quite a loud voice.
Trust me, I do not have an online strategy.
My eldest brother is six years older than me.
I would have been happy being in a wedding band.
I've been ghosted by all four members of Little Mix.
I saw Marti Pellow in pantomime in Glasgow one time.
I'm just a wee, chubby boy that happens to sing songs.
I think soul singers are much better singers than I am.
I wanna be as transparent as possible. I'm not a serious guy.
I always wanted to play festivals more than anything in Scotland.
The sooner you start writing songs, the sooner you'll get better.
Playing live and making a living from music was always the only goal.
I had never released any music until 'Bruises' came out when I was 20.
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.
I think if you don't expect anything from the world, you'll have a lovely time.
Having lots of human interaction online and during shows is very important to me.
I'm under no illusion. There are lots of male singers out there with raspy voices.
If you're writing about what you're feeling about something, then you're in good stead.
Anything I wrote before the age of 17 is probably worth putting a pin in and moving on.
Even if 'Bruises' had done a fraction of what it did, I would have thought that was class.
I used to do covers gigs that would be 90 minutes, with a 30 minute break, then another 90.
It's such a weird thing nowadays, too, when people are fans of the songs and not the bands.
The fact you have to pay 50p to use the loo in some places is the root of the world's issues.
If you take yourself too seriously, something like a bad review could put you off your stride.
It's the actual recording of the vocal that is the most boring thing you'll ever do in your life.
I get lots of requests from people to write sad songs, and I'm like, 'No, that's rubbish patter.'
Doing a festival in Hong Kong was special, looking out and seeing this massive crowd and the city.
I don't think writing open-ended lyrics is necessarily an important part of writing good pop songs.
Why would you want a picture with a wee, chubby guy from Bathgate? I just don't understand my appeal.
I was born in Glasgow and brought up in a place in between Glasgow and Edinburgh called West Lothian!
I see all these posts saying, 'I met Lewis Capaldi,' and in the picture, I look like a melting hippo.
I love playing live; that's the main thing. But I hate being in the studio. It's the most boring thing ever.
I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel. I'm just writing songs that I like, and that's where I've always come from.
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.
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.
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.
I played a lot of pubs, and some were a bit rougher than others, but once you got on, it was the same reception everywhere.
My star will probably continue to rise, and I will start hanging out with Beyonce and Jay-Z and take them to a Toby Carvery.
I tweeted that I wanted Little Mix's 'Touch' played at my funeral - I think that'd be a great song to send me into the abyss.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I think my best songs come from me sitting at a piano, bashing my head against a brick wall for hours and hours on end to get one good melody.
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.
The first time I played in front of a live audience, I realised I wanted to be a musician. I was about four years old and had always liked music.
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.
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.
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.