I'll never be Bob Dylan. He's the master.

Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone because of her. She lived jazz, she lived the blues.

You've been my inspiration, through the lies you were the truth. My world is a better place because of you.

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.

Knowing that I inspired SAM SMITH is one of the most powerful experiences I've had as an artist. I was Sam. I still am Sam.

I heard Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, and that was it. I didn't ever want to be anything else. I just started banging away and semi-studied classical music at the Royal Academy of Music but sort of half-heartedly.