Lewis Capaldi

I love playing live; that's the main thing. But I hate being in the studio. It's the most boring thing ever.

I would love to do something with Bill Withers just because I think he's next-level, just so, so class!

I think soul singers are much better singers than I am.

Playing live and making a living from music was always the only goal.

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.

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.

It's the actual recording of the vocal that is the most boring thing you'll ever do in your life.

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.

Whether it's a song that might deviate from an artists' usual sound or even if it's still very much in their world, I think the more people opening themselves up creatively to collaborate with others, the better.

In hindsight, I think my manager and I both knew that 'Someone You Loved' was a special song that we had to put out. But no one was expecting it to do so well.

I was doing a wee gig at the Edinburgh Fringe, and while I was walking down to the show from the train station, someone stopped and asked if they could get a picture with me. This was about six months before I released my first single as well, so my response was, 'Are you sure?'

I think you just have to be yourself instead of catering your sound to a specific audience, make the music you want to make, and the audience will find you.