Sam Fender Quotes

Music was my oxygen. It's what saved me from being a really lonely and scared teenager.

I think it's so important to have a great support network when you feel like you can't - I would actually go and talk to the people who tell you that you can.

Yeah, you know, I performed occasionally. I was in such despair because I just - if I didn't have my music to connect with, I couldn't figure out what I was supposed to be doing. There was never a 'B' plan here; it was just this. So it took me a long time to find my way.

Music has been my everything since day one. It's been my shoulder to cry on, my rock and my best friend.

Music, even if I ended up doing something different or do end up doing something different in the long run, it's just something that is life blood. If I'm not participating in some way, I feel like I'm wasting my time.

The most important thing about music that I've learned after all this time is that to me, it's a way of reaching the truth.

I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.

I decided to write books, just to prove to myself that I was still alive, if nothing else.

Music gave me a sense that I was worthwhile and that I had something of value to offer the world even though everybody was telling me that I didn't.

I'm glad that my music has helped other people as it's helped me. It makes me glad that I did what I did with my life.

I grew up thinking that singing was my security.

Poetry gives us courage and sets us straight with the world. Poems are great companions and friends.

I feel pretty comfortable with who I am. After a while, if you're not, it's like, what are you hoping for?

I've gotten this advice at different times, and it distills down to one word: purpose. Why are you here? When you start to get distracted by thoughts such as 'Do I fit in? Does this person like me?' - remember why you're there and what you want to accomplish.

I don't know how to function without music. When I'm not making it, I'm listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind.

Until I discovered hip-hop, I felt I wasn't going to accomplish anything.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through me. It's my means of communication, my means of growth, my means of transportation from one point in my life to another.

When I was younger, my father told me not to pigeonhole the way that I perceive myself.

My biggest advice for high school girls is to not take yourself so seriously.

If I didn't have my camera to remind me constantly, I am here to do this, I would eventually have slipped away, I think. I would have forgotten my reason to exist.

Singing gives me a lot of energy.

We all need a firm sense of identity.

If I walk away from music, I walk away from myself.

Everybody needs that one person that takes you to the right place to see all the positives in your life.