Emeli Sande

I was finding it very difficult to find a label that understood what I wanted to do and really believed that people wanted to hear something honest and a little bit different. So, I did feel a bit like a clown. You're knocking on everyone's door trying to get them to believe what you're doing. ”

I mean, there'll always be room for big productions and everything but it's good to see the other side. ”

I want to speak for people that may not feel like they're being spoken for at the moment. And I want to make a connection between the world around us and the charts. ”

I always wanted to be a musician from when I was kid. It was always a massive dream of mine. School was also really really important to me and having an education was top of my priority. So I really wanted to have a degree before I tried anything in the music industry. ”

Clown' was written when I couldn't find anyone who believed in me as an artist. Maybe those labels will think twice next time a young songwriter comes along. ”

I wanted to make an album that melodically people can connect to; something that reflects our times and the kinds of difficulties we face. ”

Any song I have to work on longer than a day, I just leave it. It's not gonna work. Everything that's good is really instant. ”

Anytime I write something that's trying to be too smart, it doesn't work. ”