I was very quiet until I got at the piano, and weekends, lunch breaks, after school, before school, I was just making music.
EMELI SANDEI was very quiet until I got at the piano, and weekends, lunch breaks, after school, before school, I was just making music.
EMELI SANDEI 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.
EMELI SANDEI try to speak of a love that not necessarily romantic. I think there is so much love between people and so much love people want to give but it’s harder and harder these days to show that, to celebrate that, you know?
EMELI SANDESongwriting is my main thing. I know that I’ll do that for the rest of my life.
EMELI SANDEClown’ 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.
EMELI SANDESometimes you feel like a very small drop in this huge ocean.
EMELI SANDEI mean, there’ll always be room for big productions and everything but it’s good to see the other side.
EMELI SANDEAnytime I write something that’s trying to be too smart, it doesn’t work.
EMELI SANDEI want to speak for people that may not feel like they’re being spoken for at the moment. And I want to make a connection between the world around us and the charts.
EMELI SANDEPeople that come to my shows are definitely people that feel outsiders. They feel like I don’t feel sexy, I don’t feel like – I can’t go out every night on Friday and I can’t connect to that, and I feel so much pressure to do that.
EMELI SANDEI don’t know if I was as ambitious as to change the world, but I do feel like – the reason why I called the album “Our Version of Events” was that I feel a lot of people are not represented in pop music and popular culture.
EMELI SANDEIt would be sad if we lost our instinct and our courage to love and protect.
EMELI SANDEI tried to bang down a lot of doors but Virgin were the only label who believed in what I was doing. I ended up with the label that understood what I was trying to do.
EMELI SANDEI wasn’t intentionally trying to create my own path or be original, it was just I needed to say certain things and I needed to express myself, and that’s how it came out.
EMELI SANDEI think people don’t realize how many hours of practice goes into becoming a musician and getting better.
EMELI SANDEFrom when I was a kid I wanted to write. It was so important to me that I was writing my own material.
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