Top 35 Calum Scott Quotes

I worked in an office for eight years, so I know what it’s like to slog through for money, but now to be able travel the world and sing to so many people, it’s a complete dream come true.

I’d like to think I’m a versatile artist without straying too far from who I am.

I’d always been a little bit uncomfortable talking about my sexuality just because it took me a while to fully accept it. I had a bit of traumatic time with my friends when I was younger, and it kind of just put me off talking about it.

Being honest to who I am led me to write ‘If Our Love Is Wrong,’ and that allowed me to fully realize the direction I should be heading to – human nature, real emotions, and issues about LGBT.

My mates who are younger than me are all slagging me for it – saying I am so much older and my crow’s feet are showing.

I’ve tried to write in a way that transcends beyond just sexuality and is more about letting go of our fear and trusting the people around us.

I have worked with a lot of people, all very different creatives, helping me hone my craft and discover myself as an artist and the record I want to make. It’s such an amazing process seeing and hearing the tracks that people could eventually be listening to on my debut album!

I am so confident and empowered by my sexuality; it plays an enormous part in my life.

I’m kind of unlucky in love and I have, for some reason, always fallen for the straight guy.

I feel very privileged to do what I do, so I’m just going to keep working hard and enjoy every minute of it because it could be over just like that.

As many of you know, my story begins where most people’s in the LGBT+ community begins… with fear. I knew I was different from my peers, my friends, and those around me when I started to discover who I was and who I identified as from a young age.

I want to reach out to everybody with my music and my album, but you’re never going to please everybody. Someone’s going to say something because, you know, it’s an opinionated industry.

I’m very keen on making the world a better place, whether that’s changing people’s attitudes or giving people the confidence to be who they are.

Song writing has been a lifeline for me.

‘Britain’s Got Talent’ just gave me that platform that I needed to share that with the world and be recognized, and now I’m able to travel the world and sing my music in places I never thought I’d visit – Dubai, Mexico, Brazil, so many different places.

I met a guy, and we were seeing each other for about a month or so, but as it got more intense, I started to freak out a little bit. I hadn’t been in a relationship for quite a while, and I just said I was going away and not sure if it was going to work.

I purposely didn’t change the pronouns in ‘Dancing On My Own’ so that it was from a gay man’s perspective.

I am doing something I love, travelling the world, meeting fans, feeling confident, and I am no longer restricted by my sexuality.

‘No Matter What’ is, without question, the most personal song I have ever written and the one I am most proud of.

It takes a lot of emotional high and struggles to write songs.

My fans have been incredible since day one… Literally, the only reason I get to do what I do! I love every single one of them, and I am still being discovered by people! Just want to share what I do with everyone!

I used to work full time in an office, hiding away in my desk. Now, I have the opportunity to do something I love. And every day is a dream come true for me. I’m just generally grateful for all the love and support, and I will continue to give my 101 percent.

I’ve been a huge fan of Adele, Sam Smith, and Ed Sheeran, and those amazing artists draw inspiration from their present and past experiences; they write songs from their heart.

The creative process has been a little bit of an experience, really – to try and make that work for me. The only way I know how to do that is just to remain genuine, humble, and true to everything I know already in my life.

If you’re real, you’ve never got anything to hide away from. You’re not trying to fake anything, you’re not trying to have this other persona – you’re just yourself. And if I could be myself for as long as possible, I will.

I’d gone through life being obsessed about my sexuality. People would ask about relationships, girlfriends, you start referring to people as ‘they’ so there’s no judgment and you can be ambiguous. People around me knew, but I still struggled with talking about it openly.

I come from a very normal day job, a very normal upbringing, so I had six or seven years working in an office nine to five in human resources. I had the normal life and kind of thought maybe this is what I’m going to do for the rest of my life but still had that passion and that yearning for music.

When somebody says, ‘I don’t like your cover’… that’s fair enough, but then this person has just written to me and said that they’ve come out to their family because of my interpretation. So I’ve got to balance everything. And yeah… that warms my heart.

I remember learning as a kid that love meant loneliness and confusion.

I’m single, which is good because I can concentrate the hell out of my performances. At some point, I’m going to want to find someone to chill out with at the end of the night and talk about things.

I tried to surround myself with people who have accepted me for being me. And I want to create that image to my fans as well. And that’s the advice I give to them. To be happy for who you are, and to surround yourself with people who are happy for being you.

I cannot thank the LGBT+ community enough for their support, for their love, for their acceptance, and for the first time in a letter, I am incredibly proud to say that I am gay and have never been happier.

I was so terrified for so long about what people think about my sexuality, and I didn’t wanna find myself in a position where I was losing my fans and couldn’t do my job.

Two gay guys doing a beautiful duet – I think it would just be so powerful, you know.

I will continue to be open in my music and in interviews and keep those conversations going about the issues we face as an LGBT+ community until those conversations no longer need to be had.