“Just celebrate who you are and be happy with you are. Take all the ups and downs together, as you’re only human.”
― Calum Scott
“I remember learning as a kid that love meant loneliness and confusion.”
― Calum Scott
“Most of my songs are inspired by both falling in love and heartache. And it was a turning point for me as a singer and songwriter as it dawned on me that I wasn’t being honest enough about what I truly feel.”
― Calum Scott
“For a lot of people, music is about the show, the lights, and all that. With Filipino music fans, they genuinely listen to songs.”
― Calum Scott
“I’m kind of unlucky in love and I have, for some reason, always fallen for the straight guy.”
― Calum Scott
“’If Our Love Is Wrong’ is, quite simply, my coming out song, as I was trying to wrap my head around my sexuality and was starting to learn about songwriting, and that my honesty and my authenticity came from my personal experiences and writing about stuff that genuinely bugged me or upset me.”
― Calum Scott
“I don’t consider myself a flag bearer in the parade, but I have never felt stronger about who I am.”
― Calum Scott
“Song writing has been a lifeline for me.”
― Calum Scott
“I tried to surround myself with people who have accepted me for being me. And I want to create that image to my fans as well. And that’s the advice I give to them. To be happy for who you are, and to surround yourself with people who are happy for being you.”
― Calum Scott
“The heart wants what it wants, and you know, if you’re not careful, you can find yourself in a situation where you give your heart away, and it can get broken.”
― Calum Scott
“I would say I am one of those people who just love to connect to people doing something I love. Can’t lie, love a ballad, so expect big, powerful, emotive stuff from me!”
― Calum Scott
“I met a guy, and we were seeing each other for about a month or so, but as it got more intense, I started to freak out a little bit. I hadn’t been in a relationship for quite a while, and I just said I was going away and not sure if it was going to work.”
― Calum Scott
“I’m single, which is good because I can concentrate the hell out of my performances. At some point, I’m going to want to find someone to chill out with at the end of the night and talk about things.”
― Calum Scott
“I come from a very normal day job, a very normal upbringing, so I had six or seven years working in an office nine to five in human resources. I had the normal life and kind of thought maybe this is what I’m going to do for the rest of my life but still had that passion and that yearning for music.”
― Calum Scott
“I started to feel songwriting was pulling different pieces of my heart out – the more I started writing, the more there was honesty.”
― Calum Scott
“I was so terrified for so long about what people think about my sexuality, and I didn’t wanna find myself in a position where I was losing my fans and couldn’t do my job.”
― Calum Scott
“’Britain’s Got Talent’ just gave me that platform that I needed to share that with the world and be recognized, and now I’m able to travel the world and sing my music in places I never thought I’d visit – Dubai, Mexico, Brazil, so many different places.”
― Calum Scott
“I’d always been a little bit uncomfortable talking about my sexuality just because it took me a while to fully accept it. I had a bit of traumatic time with my friends when I was younger, and it kind of just put me off talking about it.”
― Calum Scott
“I’ve used songwriting as a tool, I’ve used it as a way of being able to talk about how I feel.”
― Calum Scott
“I just wanted to sing, to get my voice heard. I knew I had to do everything possible to stay in the industry.”
― Calum Scott
“There are a lot of songs about love and how it starts, whether that’s realizing it yourself or coming to find it later on – but no sort of talk about the actual feelings that are created from love and passion.”
― Calum Scott
“If you’re real, you’ve never got anything to hide away from. You’re not trying to fake anything, you’re not trying to have this other persona – you’re just yourself. And if I could be myself for as long as possible, I will.”
― Calum Scott
“I’d like to think I’m a versatile artist without straying too far from who I am.”
― Calum Scott
“I used to hate myself for being gay. I couldn’t come to terms with it.”
― Calum Scott
“I had told one of my friends that I felt like I might be gay or that I just wasn’t into girls, and I was abandoned.”
― Calum Scott
“I am so confident and empowered by my sexuality; it plays an enormous part in my life.”
― Calum Scott
“I had to be honest in my songwriting for it to be where it is, and it’s always scary wondering if anyone will connect with that.”
― Calum Scott
“My fans have been incredible since day one… Literally, the only reason I get to do what I do! I love every single one of them, and I am still being discovered by people! Just want to share what I do with everyone!”
― Calum Scott
“To be in the charts and hanging around with such huge names in the industry just feels like a complete privilege! I can’t even explain how it feels – complete dream come true.”
― Calum Scott
“I have worked with a lot of people, all very different creatives, helping me hone my craft and discover myself as an artist and the record I want to make. It’s such an amazing process seeing and hearing the tracks that people could eventually be listening to on my debut album!”
― Calum Scott
“My mates who are younger than me are all slagging me for it – saying I am so much older and my crow’s feet are showing.”
― Calum Scott
“I am doing something I love, travelling the world, meeting fans, feeling confident, and I am no longer restricted by my sexuality.”
― Calum Scott
“Since I became more confident, I’ve thought, ‘Right, let me get myself on the market’. So I joined Tinder and Chappie, and it was funny because, at first, the sites thought I was an imposter.”
― Calum Scott
“I feel very privileged to do what I do, so I’m just going to keep working hard and enjoy every minute of it because it could be over just like that.”
― Calum Scott
“It is important for me to tell my story so that others feel comfortable telling theirs.”
― Calum Scott
“As a singer, you want to connect with as many people as possible; that’s my whole thing.”
― Calum Scott
“I want to reach out to everybody with my music and my album, but you’re never going to please everybody. Someone’s going to say something because, you know, it’s an opinionated industry.”
― Calum Scott
“The amount of people that have said, ‘You’ve inspired me to be confident. I’ve come out to my friends because of you,’ that reduces me to tears every time, because I’m just, like, little old me from Hull has had an implication on somebody’s life. That’s massive to me. Massive.”
― Calum Scott
“When somebody says, ‘I don’t like your cover’… that’s fair enough, but then this person has just written to me and said that they’ve come out to their family because of my interpretation. So I’ve got to balance everything. And yeah… that warms my heart.”
― Calum Scott
“As many of you know, my story begins where most people’s in the LGBT+ community begins… with fear. I knew I was different from my peers, my friends, and those around me when I started to discover who I was and who I identified as from a young age.”
― Calum Scott
“I find myself in a position where I have a voice that has the potential to influence – I want to use that to inspire confidence in those that have yet to find it, to inspire compassion in those who don’t understand, but most importantly, to inspire love in everyone through the experiences and stories that we can all relate to or empathize with.”
― Calum Scott
“I will continue to be open in my music and in interviews and keep those conversations going about the issues we face as an LGBT+ community until those conversations no longer need to be had.”
― Calum Scott
“I cannot thank the LGBT+ community enough for their support, for their love, for their acceptance, and for the first time in a letter, I am incredibly proud to say that I am gay and have never been happier.”
― Calum Scott
“I’ve been a huge fan of Adele, Sam Smith, and Ed Sheeran, and those amazing artists draw inspiration from their present and past experiences; they write songs from their heart.”
― Calum Scott
“Being honest to who I am led me to write ‘If Our Love Is Wrong,’ and that allowed me to fully realize the direction I should be heading to – human nature, real emotions, and issues about LGBT.”
― Calum Scott
“I used to work full time in an office, hiding away in my desk. Now, I have the opportunity to do something I love. And every day is a dream come true for me. I’m just generally grateful for all the love and support, and I will continue to give my 101 percent.”
― Calum Scott
“I worked in an office for eight years, so I know what it’s like to slog through for money, but now to be able travel the world and sing to so many people, it’s a complete dream come true.”
― Calum Scott
“I purposely didn’t change the pronouns in ‘Dancing On My Own’ so that it was from a gay man’s perspective.”
― Calum Scott
“I’ve tried to write in a way that transcends beyond just sexuality and is more about letting go of our fear and trusting the people around us.”
― Calum Scott
“’No Matter What’ is, without question, the most personal song I have ever written and the one I am most proud of.”
― Calum Scott
“It takes a lot of emotional high and struggles to write songs.”
― Calum Scott
“I was suppressed for many years. From the outside, you’d think I had a very normal life.”
― Calum Scott
“The creative process has been a little bit of an experience, really – to try and make that work for me. The only way I know how to do that is just to remain genuine, humble, and true to everything I know already in my life.”
― Calum Scott
“Two gay guys doing a beautiful duet – I think it would just be so powerful, you know.”
― Calum Scott
“I’m very keen on making the world a better place, whether that’s changing people’s attitudes or giving people the confidence to be who they are.”
― Calum Scott
“I’d gone through life being obsessed about my sexuality. People would ask about relationships, girlfriends, you start referring to people as ‘they’ so there’s no judgment and you can be ambiguous. People around me knew, but I still struggled with talking about it openly.”
― Calum Scott
“I’d gone from being a normal HR worker from Hull to being recognised in the street, being on TV. As much as it was exciting, thrilling, and a big, huge adrenaline rush.”
― Calum Scott
“I remember when we were going to release ‘Dancing On My Own,’ and I went into the record label crying to them that I was terrified people wouldn’t support me anymore if they knew I was gay.”
― Calum Scott
“When my friends started to care about getting girlfriends, I really didn’t. I started to think, literally, ‘What’s wrong with me?’ and, ‘Why can’t I be normal like everybody else?’”
― Calum Scott
“If one less kid can grow up without hiding who they are along the way or having to believe that who they love is something that will make them lonely, then everything I went through will be worth it.”
― Calum Scott
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