Emeli Sande

I'd be smiling if I wasn't so desperate. I'd be patient if I had the time.

— Emeli Sande

I always knew I wanted to be a musician, and I always knew I wanted to write, 'cause the people I was…

— Emeli Sande

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

— Emeli Sande

From when I was a kid I wanted to write. It was so important to me that I was writing my own…

— Emeli Sande

I was so shy and so quiet, and the only time I had my own voice and I could really connect with…

— Emeli Sande

I couldn't help but feel very different from everybody, so I think that's why I found such a big world in music,…

— Emeli Sande

I think on the first album, my aim was to write a good song and have a good melody, and I wanted…

— Emeli Sande

Clown' was written when I couldn't find anyone who believed in me as an artist. Maybe those labels will think twice next…

— Emeli Sande

I don't know if I was as ambitious as to change the world, but I do feel like - the reason why…

— Emeli Sande

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

— Emeli Sande

“you've got the words to change a nation but your biting your tongue, you've spent a lifetime in silence afraid that you'll…

— Emeli Sande

I want to speak for people that may not feel like they're being spoken for at the moment. And I want to…

— Emeli Sande

Just thinking of all the things I'd done getting there and everything I've sacrificed to do so. But what's happening now makes…

— Emeli Sande

I feel like 'Next To Me' is a great introduction because it's a simple song that has a simple message for me.…

— Emeli Sande

I'm not too bothered about what category my music goes in and there's no point in limiting in who you can reach,…

— Emeli Sande

I wasn't intentionally trying to create my own path or be original, it was just I needed to say certain things and…

— Emeli Sande

Because they're my stories, they're my version of events of the past three years. But I really hope people can hear their…

— Emeli Sande

Melody is the first thing that comes to me when I'm songwriting. I learned piano classically first, and then I went into…

— Emeli Sande

I was very quiet until I got at the piano, and weekends, lunch breaks, after school, before school, I was just making…

— Emeli Sande

I was inspired by people like Joni Mitchell and Carole King and Stevie and "Storytellers." People that could really change the world…

— Emeli Sande

If I was singing like somebody else, then it was almost like I was expressing myself like somebody else. So it was…

— Emeli Sande

I built a reputation as a songwriter in the industry before my own hits. People were used to coming to me for…

— Emeli Sande

I was finding it very difficult to find a label that understood what I wanted to do and really believed that people…

— Emeli Sande

I think people don't realize how many hours of practice goes into becoming a musician and getting better.

— Emeli Sande

You've got the words to change a nation but you're biting your tongue

— Emeli Sande