53 Quotes by Emeli Sande

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

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 why I kind of - I was an introvert as a kid, but I loved the piano, and that's where I felt at home.

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 was so shy and so quiet, and the only time I had my own voice and I could really connect with people was when I was singing or on stage.

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

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

If I was singing like somebody else, then it was almost like I was expressing myself like somebody else. So it was always a very original thing for me. It's my voice, it's my diary, it's the way I connect with people.

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

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