Sampha

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When you feel totally alone in your thoughts and feelings, there's someone out there who is going through what you went through, even if it's the strangest, weirdest thing you could think of.
- Sampha
Collection: Thinking
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Sometimes you think certain details are things that only you would notice, so it's a great thing to feel like you're not by yourself and people understand where you're coming from.
- Sampha
Collection: Thinking
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You have to be quite brave to write about something that you honestly feel and think.
- Sampha
Collection: Writing
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Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.
- Sampha
Collection: Sound
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I was just thinking about my own natural way of one-night stands: always wanting to be more attached to something. I'm not very good at detaching myself.
- Sampha
Collection: Night
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When I've produced a song, I try to record a vocal over it, and sometimes it becomes really hard. Sometimes I've already said a lot that I want to say within the production. The vocal is just adding to it, rather than it being a song.
- Sampha
Collection: Song
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I have a cousin called Flirta D who was big in the grime world, which made me really cool at school. 'Flirta D's your cousin?' 'Yeah, buddy.' 'He must be a millionaire!'
- Sampha
Collection: Cousin
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For me, when I'm writing something really personal, I don't feel good about it. It's weird that people can connect to it and like something that came from a really crap place. You have to be quite brave to write about something that you honestly feel and think.
- Sampha
Collection: Writing