Sam Smith Quotes

I think it's important to really press on with the song writing and just go with it. There's no code, there's no craft... it's just let yourself shine through your music. If it's meant to be loved and heard, it'll happen.

If I get in the studio, it's very organic. I like to go off how I feel.

It's not that some songs are for radio and some songs aren't, I'm just making whatever I feel.

The fun thing about song writing is that it's just creative. It can be whatever you want it to be. For me, I'm really protective of that. I'm not going to write something because I feel like it fits here or it fits there - I just want to write music that feels good to me, you know?

Acting is such a personal thing, which is weird because at the same time it's not. It's for the consumption of other people. But in terms of creative outlets and expressing yourself, it's just the most extreme version of that that I've ever found. It's like running, it's exertion.

When I got into music, I wanted to learn guitar just enough to be able to write songs. I wanted to be able to express myself.

The way I write is totally instinctive. I just write what I feel or what I find funny - and hope everyone else agrees.

I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.

I don't have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the musicians that I really love.

All of my records have been very personal, just writing more and more songs, you get better at being able to say what you feel.

I wanted to make music that spoke to me, without having the expectation of success that comes with Lady Antebellum.

When I was going to school and under the influence of Abstract Expressionism, I believed that if you had a give-and-take rapport with your work that it would be you, and that would be all that was required. It would be honest, and the core of your personality would come out if you responded to position and contrasts in your work.

There's two things that are tough when you're trying to be a songwriter: Number one is, how do I write a great song? The second thing is, how do I write a great song that's right for me?

I just write the way I feel, and if it feels good to me, hopefully everybody likes it.

My creativeness stems from my love of music. Music is pure emotion. Music is the infinity sign. Music is self-expression in its purest form - it's how I express my anger, my self-doubt, my love. I think my music is very vulnerable and very expressive, very transparent.

I really like the art of music, the way that you can express yourself through music.

I never went out to make the music that people would like. I mean, I tried, because every teenager tries to do that. But in my heart, I'd always come from gigs where I played upbeat guitar covers and I'd start writing sad songs on the piano.

I'm a songwriter; it's in my nature to express things openly.

I don't know, I've always written songs that are mainly about attitude, not me personally.

I guess when I first started writing music, I really had no idea if anyone was ever going to hear what I was writing and almost no intention of people hearing it. So, it was kind of this journal. It was pretty unfiltered.

I never think of my audience when I write a poem. I try to write out of whatever is haunting me; in order for a poem to feel authentic, I have to feel I'm treading on very dangerous ground, which can mean that the resulting revelations may prove hurtful to other people. The time for thinking about that kind of guilt or any collective sense of responsibility, however, occurs much later in the creative process, after the poem is finished.

It's pretty much rock-'n'-roll. I sit down and start feeling stuff and writing.

Music is an expression of what's inside of you. And that's how I make music.

Art is a personal act of courage.

When the muse hits me, or the mood, or whatever it is, I get my guitar out and I empty it out. I just start going through things to see what's going to happen.