Albums Quote by 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 listening to…

— 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 material.

— Emeli Sande

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

— 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, and that's…

— Emeli Sande

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

— 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 time a…

— 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 is really…

— 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 say something…

— 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 make a…

— 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 it worth…

— Emeli Sande