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.
— Lewis Capaldi
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.
When I was about 9, my brother, who's six years older than me, started getting guitar lessons, and I wouldn't say that it inspired me to pick up an instrument: it was more me being like, 'Well, if he's getting guitar lessons, then so am I. I'm not missing out,' type of thing.
I'll be on Tinder until the day I die.
Why would you want a picture with a wee, chubby guy from Bathgate? I just don't understand my appeal.
I think the first thing you release should come from you. If you want your first piece to be exactly how you want it to be, and how you see it, you should release it yourself.
I always wanted to play festivals more than anything in Scotland.
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 think if you don't expect anything from the world, you'll have a lovely time.
I started off playing my own songs, just because I saw it as a means to an end almost of, 'Right, if you want to play gigs, you have to write your own songs.' I mean, they were absolutely terrible.
I saw Marti Pellow in pantomime in Glasgow one time.
I was born in Glasgow and brought up in a place in between Glasgow and Edinburgh called West Lothian!
I get lots of requests from people to write sad songs, and I'm like, 'No, that's rubbish patter.'
It's the actual recording of the vocal that is the most boring thing you'll ever do in your life.
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 had never released any music until 'Bruises' came out when I was 20.
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've been ghosted by all four members of Little Mix.
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.
The first artist whose music I really got into was Paolo Nutini. When his album 'Sunny Side Up' came out, I think I listened to it on repeat for, like, six months.
Having lots of human interaction online and during shows is very important to me.
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 want to prove myself.
I have been gigging around Glasgow and Edinburgh since I was 12. I played in pubs at that age, even though I obviously was too young to be in them. So I used to hide in bathrooms, come out and play my set, then get the hell out as quickly as possible.
Even if 'Bruises' had done a fraction of what it did, I would have thought that was class.
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.
