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A lot of people say that 'the best songs fall into your lap' and that they're the easiest ones to write and take the shortest amount of time: I wholeheartedly disagree with that.
Lewis Capaldi
Time
Best
People
Disagree
Fall
Say
Easiest
People Say
Write
Take
Songs
Lot
Shortest
Your
Lap
Wholeheartedly
Amount
I think my best songs come from me sitting at a piano, bashing my head against a brick wall for hours and hours on end to get one good melody.
Lewis Capaldi
Best
Good
Me
Think
Melody
Piano
Songs
Head
Come
Hours
Hours And Hours
End
Wall
Get
Sitting
Against
Brick
Brick Wall
I don't think writing open-ended lyrics is necessarily an important part of writing good pop songs.
Lewis Capaldi
Good
Writing
Important
Think
Lyrics
Songs
Part
Open-Ended
Important Part
Pop
Pop Songs
Necessarily
If you're writing about what you're feeling about something, then you're in good stead.
Lewis Capaldi
Good
You
Writing
Feeling
Stead
About
Something
Then
Doing a festival in Hong Kong was special, looking out and seeing this massive crowd and the city.
Lewis Capaldi
Looking
Hong Kong
Out
City
Seeing
Crowd
Massive
Kong
Doing
Festival
Special
I would have been happy teaching music in schools - I still would be, and I still might be, although I don't know if I'm clever enough.
Lewis Capaldi
Music
Happy
Clever
Enough
Would
Would-Be
Know
Schools
Although
Still
Been
Might
Teaching
I remember hearing people like Joe Cocker, Fleetwood Mac, and Elvis. My parents were big fans of them, and they were the early seeds. My brother was more into Slipknot, and I still listen to them, too, but it wasn't until I listened to Paolo Nutini that it really clicked.
Lewis Capaldi
People
Remember
Fans
Parents
Big
Too
Elvis
Mac
Joe
Brother
Seeds
More
Like
Until
Clicked
Still
Were
Hearing
Listen
Listened
Them
Really
Fleetwood
Fleetwood Mac
Early
I did my HNC and my HND at college in Motherwell, and the plan I had was to do third year at uni and then to try and get into teaching.
Lewis Capaldi
Try
College
Year
Had
Get
Did
Plan
Then
Teaching
Third
If it's just going to go in my body, then I don't want fancy things in my body. I just want regular things in my body.
Lewis Capaldi
Go
Going
Just
Want
Fancy
Then
Regular
Body
Things
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.
Lewis Capaldi
Me
Will
Made
Twitter
Out
Tell
Bad
Find
Bad Review
Review
Reviewer
Links
Accounts
Send
Where
Dad
Mum
Lives
Mum And Dad
I like social media.
Lewis Capaldi
Social Media
Like
Social
Media
I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel. I'm just writing songs that I like, and that's where I've always come from.
Lewis Capaldi
Writing
Songs
Come
Like
Always
Trying
Wheel
Just
Where
Reinvent
Reinvent The Wheel
If you don't feel comfortable talking about really personal things in your music, you shouldn't do it. There's plenty of other things to write about.
Lewis Capaldi
Music
You
Other
Plenty
About
Write
Feel
Talking
Comfortable
Personal
Personal Things
Really
Your
Things
I would love to do something with Bill Withers just because I think he's next-level, just so, so class!
Lewis Capaldi
Love
Class
Think
Would
Something
He
Because
Just
Just Because
Bill
People take music too seriously.
Lewis Capaldi
Music
People
Seriously
Too
Take
I'm under no illusion. There are lots of male singers out there with raspy voices.
Lewis Capaldi
Illusion
Out
Voices
Singers
Male
Lots
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.
Lewis Capaldi
You
Song
Think
Out
Someone
Both
Had
No-One
Put
Knew
Well
Hindsight
Expecting
Manager
Loved
Special
Playing live and making a living from music was always the only goal.
Lewis Capaldi
Music
Live
Living
Only
Always
Making
Making A Living
Goal
Playing
I would have been happy being in a wedding band.
Lewis Capaldi
Happy
Band
Would
Wedding
Been
Being
It's when I'm playing a headline show I feel weird, 'cause I don't know how to react to people coming out to see me.
Lewis Capaldi
Me
People
Cause
Out
See
Weird
Feel
Headline
Know
React
How
Coming
Show
Playing
For me, I feel most at home when I'm playing live.
Lewis Capaldi
Home
Me
Live
Feel
Most
Playing
I was the suburban kid of Scottish parents, and the idea of an acting career was so beyond my experience. I didn't even know there were drama schools until a friend told me.
Lindsay Duncan
Me
Experience
Parents
Drama
Kid
Idea
Beyond
Know
Until
Schools
Were
Friend
Scottish
Suburban
Acting
Acting Career
Even
Career
If someone said I had enough money and I could take six months off, I would run in an instant.
Lindsay Duncan
Money
Enough
Enough Money
Months
Run
Would
Someone
Could
Take
Had
Had Enough
Instant
Said
Off
Six
I suppose because I do and can work in the theatre, I don't see work as closing down as an older woman.
Lindsay Duncan
Work
Woman
Theatre
Down
Older
See
Suppose
Because
Closing
Older Woman
A certain amount of anger doesn't make us less empathetic, less humane, less loving. It just makes us real.
Lindsay Duncan
Anger
Humane
Empathetic
Make
Makes
Real
Just
Loving
Us
Certain
Less
Amount
Deep down, I think I would be utterly miserable in Hollywood.
Lindsay Duncan
Miserable
Down
Think
Would
Would-Be
Hollywood
Deep
Deep Down
Utterly
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