April 4, 2023 • 11 mins
from his 2019 iheart radio, most requested live ask anything chat with romeo, here's sam smith
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hi everyone, I'm Sam Smith and this is my most
requested live Ask Anything, Chat asked, absolutely anything. Thank you
so much to the incredible Romeo and iHeartRadio for giving
me the time tonight to answer your questions about about
(00:23):
my new single How do you sleep? Yeah, an issue Romeo.
By the way, it's been way too long since I've
seen you. I hope you're well and so first question.
First question is from Kimberly from Elizabeth and Jay. What
do you like to do on the days you have off?
(00:46):
Oh my gosh, I wish there was. I mean, I
have a lot of days off to be quietus right
now because I'm not on tour at the moment, but
days off in general, I kind of I'm very I'm
very boring. I like to I love I have an
obsession with walking. I walk for hours and hours and
(01:08):
hours and hours and hours. I am. I live in London,
so I normally just put my headphones on and I
will just walk across London literally for about three three
and a bit hours, just listening to music, stopping off,
having coffee. I love coffee, um so so a lot
of that I am. I also loved my TV shows.
(01:31):
Um yeah, just just just the basic basic things to
be quite honest, but mainly walking, maybe walking to nowhere.
Thank you for that, can believe. Um. Next question is
Brittany from Charleston. What's your favorite thing about writing music?
(01:52):
M oh, I find I find writing music very difficult
sometimes actually am very challenging. Um it's it's I've realized
I'm looking over here, so I'm going to look at
a camera. Um. I think my favorite thing about writing
(02:17):
music would be the the feeling I get when I'm
on stage and I and people are singing my songs
back to me. I'd say that would be the best part. Um. Also,
I have every time I write a song that I
(02:38):
that I love and that other people love around me
and I play it to them and it feels like
the one. Um, I feel like I've discovered a little
something else about myself that I didn't know before. And
that's a really special feeling. Um. Yeah, it's a really
that's a that's a really special feeling. It's it's it's
generally a form of therapy. You know. I've always said that,
(03:01):
and it's I mean it. It's ryan music is like
an assisted conversation with yourself. That's just like therapy is.
Thank you for that, Nicole from Santa Monica. H love
Santa Monica. I just sent my coffee. As you get
involved with the Judy project, I'm so happy. There's a
(03:21):
question in here about that. I I love Judy Garland
more than more than anything in the world. I used
to I did film studies in school when I was sixteen,
and I did a whole piece on Judy for about
a year and a half. I studied her, and I
was reading books and I and I just became absolutely
(03:45):
obsessed with her as an artist. And when I heard
this film was coming out, I was just I was
so excited. And I got asked to go and watch
the film before it come out, and I went to
see it, and the producer and the director was there,
and I was just completely touched and taken taken back
(04:09):
by the film, and especially by Rennie and her performance
of Judy. I just thought it was sensational. And the
gentleman who has worked on a lot of my albums
is an amazing man called Stephen fitz Morris, and he
was doing the whole Judy record with Rennie, and and
(04:29):
so it just it naturally happens, you know, I went
into studio and the song get Happy was a song
that I used to sing all the time. My grandma
and my mum loved that song, and I just jumped
at the opportunity basically to sing it with Rennie. And
it was, you know, as much as that making that
(04:49):
kind of that song and doing that stuff with something
to release, I also would have been happy if that
was never heard by anyone, because that was purely for me,
and that was it felt really cathartic and beautiful to
go back to my roots in that way and um
and to sing with Renie's out whether who I think
(05:10):
is just absolutely out of this universe. Yeah, So it was,
it was, It was. It was beautiful Grace from Rochester.
Roget I've never heard of Rochester, and I would love
to go and meet you. Grace. The best Christmas present
I've ever gotten. Oh my gosh, I don't know her
(05:35):
I've got. I'm so spoiled. I've had some amazing presence.
I think, I don't know that this is hard, I think, Jane,
what I think. The best presence I ever got was
just I was obsessed with Lady Gaga as a kid.
When I was like fifteen, and I remember in all
(05:58):
her video she had the Beat headphones and I just
really wanted to Beats headphones, and I got Beats headphones,
and I was just I think it was the first
time I'd heard music in my ears, and I was like, wow,
because those those headphones are just they're they're they're amazing.
I mean, I know I now have both headphones, which
(06:19):
have just changed in my life, but you know, listening
to music is very important to me, and and yeah,
so so I think that was my first time being like, wow,
I'm being submerged in sound a little bit. From fifteen
years old, that was amazing. But then the same year
as well, I really my sisters. I know, it was
(06:39):
a few years before that I got a massive Pikachew toy,
which I loved, but I was so upset because my
sister's got massive Powerpuff Girls toys and I got a
Pikachew toy. And I remember just being like, what the
So I don't know if I can swear, but I
was just like, what the hell, Like, why can't I
get the third Powerpuff Girl? I am the third power
(07:02):
Puff Girl. So it just brings back trauma that really
does Grace I'm sorry. Um Austin from San Antonio, Texas.
Hi Sam, Hello Austin. UM, where do you keep Where
do you keep all the awardy one? Um? I? I
(07:25):
actually I have like a weird relationship with them, and
with stuff like that, I need to get better at it.
And I've just I've just actually bought a house where
I could fit some more stuff in because where I
live right now is not massive, so I can't fit
stuff I have. My Grammys are up in my house,
(07:46):
in my living room, and they're kind of hidden. I
just can't stare at them every day because it just
I sometimes when I catch my eye, I just look
at them and I'm like, oh my God. And I couldn't.
I couldn't do that every day, So they're a bit hidden.
My oscar is I'm too scared to have it out,
which is really ship. I feel like I should. I
(08:10):
really think I should try and have it out because
it'd be great to show that off. But that's the
problem is I feel like I'm showing off by having
this stuff out for people to see. Yeah, oh, I
had my Brits out as well. In my I have
little room with my piano, and I need to get
better at that. I need to have better stories because
I should be proud of this ship. So I always
(08:33):
feel a bit embarrassed about it, which is which is
not great. Probably thank you for that often. Nancy from Buffalo,
How how did you all handle being away from home
for such long stretches of time? Oh my god, I mean,
(08:54):
if I'm going to be completely out of you, I didn't.
I didn't handle it very well. It's touring is really
really difficult. I I mean, after every tour I've been on,
I've had a bit of of a meltdown, if I'm honest.
(09:15):
And I'm still sitting here now knowing you know that
I want to go on tour again, but at the
same time, I don't want to lose my mind, so
I'm even scared for the next tour. It's it's it's weird.
It's touring is really really hard. And what the only
way I can explain it is it's like you're taken
(09:36):
away from you. You know, you go away from all
your family and friends for so long, and then you
come back and everyone's changed and everything's changed and you
have to play catch up. But you're playing catch up
knowing for well that you're going to go again in
a year's time. So it's really, it's really, it's really,
(09:57):
it's really hard. But at the same time, it's is
incredibly addictive because I get to meet you and I
get to sing with you all, and I travel to
some incredible places and I'm doing what I love and
I'm performing, and the highs that you feel are and
are incredible. But the ways that I handle it, I
guess are, um, I exercise, meditation, trying to eat well,
(10:23):
trying to you know. Now, Luckily, you know, I've made
a bit of money now, so I can fly my
family out to certain shows if you know, if I'm
feeling really low or sad, I can fly my family out. Um. Also,
I handle it from the people I'm on the road
with most importantly that the people I have around me
are absolutely sensational in every way. And my online therapists,
(10:45):
so on the road therapists. So you know, there's there's
there's many ways to handle it, but the truth is
I don't handle it. I I find it really hard.
Oh we're done, We're done. Um, that was really really fun.
I'm in here in this room alone doing this, and
that was really really nice. I felt like I just
(11:06):
had some time alone with you all. Thank you for that.
Thank you to everyone for asking their questions. Thank you
to Romeo for your support and for having me on
most Requested Live tonight to talk about how do you sleep?
And I really really hope that you're all enjoying the music,
and then I can't wait to see you all soon.
(11:28):
Thank you,
Hi everyone, I'm Sam Smith and this is my most
requested live Ask Anything, Chat asked, absolutely anything. Thank you
so much to the incredible Romeo and iHeartRadio for giving
me the time tonight to answer your questions about about
(00:23):
my new single How do you sleep? Yeah, an issue Romeo.
By the way, it's been way too long since I've
seen you. I hope you're well and so first question.
First question is from Kimberly from Elizabeth and Jay. What
do you like to do on the days you have off?
(00:46):
Oh my gosh, I wish there was. I mean, I
have a lot of days off to be quietus right
now because I'm not on tour at the moment, but
days off in general, I kind of I'm very I'm
very boring. I like to I love I have an
obsession with walking. I walk for hours and hours and
(01:08):
hours and hours and hours. I am. I live in London,
so I normally just put my headphones on and I
will just walk across London literally for about three three
and a bit hours, just listening to music, stopping off,
having coffee. I love coffee, um so so a lot
of that I am. I also loved my TV shows.
(01:31):
Um yeah, just just just the basic basic things to
be quite honest, but mainly walking, maybe walking to nowhere.
Thank you for that, can believe. Um. Next question is
Brittany from Charleston. What's your favorite thing about writing music?
(01:52):
M oh, I find I find writing music very difficult
sometimes actually am very challenging. Um it's it's I've realized
I'm looking over here, so I'm going to look at
a camera. Um. I think my favorite thing about writing
(02:17):
music would be the the feeling I get when I'm
on stage and I and people are singing my songs
back to me. I'd say that would be the best part. Um. Also,
I have every time I write a song that I
(02:38):
that I love and that other people love around me
and I play it to them and it feels like
the one. Um, I feel like I've discovered a little
something else about myself that I didn't know before. And
that's a really special feeling. Um. Yeah, it's a really
that's a that's a really special feeling. It's it's it's
generally a form of therapy. You know. I've always said that,
(03:01):
and it's I mean it. It's ryan music is like
an assisted conversation with yourself. That's just like therapy is.
Thank you for that, Nicole from Santa Monica. H love
Santa Monica. I just sent my coffee. As you get
involved with the Judy project, I'm so happy. There's a
(03:21):
question in here about that. I I love Judy Garland
more than more than anything in the world. I used
to I did film studies in school when I was sixteen,
and I did a whole piece on Judy for about
a year and a half. I studied her, and I
was reading books and I and I just became absolutely
(03:45):
obsessed with her as an artist. And when I heard
this film was coming out, I was just I was
so excited. And I got asked to go and watch
the film before it come out, and I went to
see it, and the producer and the director was there,
and I was just completely touched and taken taken back
(04:09):
by the film, and especially by Rennie and her performance
of Judy. I just thought it was sensational. And the
gentleman who has worked on a lot of my albums
is an amazing man called Stephen fitz Morris, and he
was doing the whole Judy record with Rennie, and and
(04:29):
so it just it naturally happens, you know, I went
into studio and the song get Happy was a song
that I used to sing all the time. My grandma
and my mum loved that song, and I just jumped
at the opportunity basically to sing it with Rennie. And
it was, you know, as much as that making that
(04:49):
kind of that song and doing that stuff with something
to release, I also would have been happy if that
was never heard by anyone, because that was purely for me,
and that was it felt really cathartic and beautiful to
go back to my roots in that way and um
and to sing with Renie's out whether who I think
(05:10):
is just absolutely out of this universe. Yeah, So it was,
it was, It was. It was beautiful Grace from Rochester.
Roget I've never heard of Rochester, and I would love
to go and meet you. Grace. The best Christmas present
I've ever gotten. Oh my gosh, I don't know her
(05:35):
I've got. I'm so spoiled. I've had some amazing presence.
I think, I don't know that this is hard, I think, Jane,
what I think. The best presence I ever got was
just I was obsessed with Lady Gaga as a kid.
When I was like fifteen, and I remember in all
(05:58):
her video she had the Beat headphones and I just
really wanted to Beats headphones, and I got Beats headphones,
and I was just I think it was the first
time I'd heard music in my ears, and I was like, wow,
because those those headphones are just they're they're they're amazing.
I mean, I know I now have both headphones, which
(06:19):
have just changed in my life, but you know, listening
to music is very important to me, and and yeah,
so so I think that was my first time being like, wow,
I'm being submerged in sound a little bit. From fifteen
years old, that was amazing. But then the same year
as well, I really my sisters. I know, it was
(06:39):
a few years before that I got a massive Pikachew toy,
which I loved, but I was so upset because my
sister's got massive Powerpuff Girls toys and I got a
Pikachew toy. And I remember just being like, what the
So I don't know if I can swear, but I
was just like, what the hell, Like, why can't I
get the third Powerpuff Girl? I am the third power
(07:02):
Puff Girl. So it just brings back trauma that really
does Grace I'm sorry. Um Austin from San Antonio, Texas.
Hi Sam, Hello Austin. UM, where do you keep Where
do you keep all the awardy one? Um? I? I
(07:25):
actually I have like a weird relationship with them, and
with stuff like that, I need to get better at it.
And I've just I've just actually bought a house where
I could fit some more stuff in because where I
live right now is not massive, so I can't fit
stuff I have. My Grammys are up in my house,
(07:46):
in my living room, and they're kind of hidden. I
just can't stare at them every day because it just
I sometimes when I catch my eye, I just look
at them and I'm like, oh my God. And I couldn't.
I couldn't do that every day, So they're a bit hidden.
My oscar is I'm too scared to have it out,
which is really ship. I feel like I should. I
(08:10):
really think I should try and have it out because
it'd be great to show that off. But that's the
problem is I feel like I'm showing off by having
this stuff out for people to see. Yeah, oh, I
had my Brits out as well. In my I have
little room with my piano, and I need to get
better at that. I need to have better stories because
I should be proud of this ship. So I always
(08:33):
feel a bit embarrassed about it, which is which is
not great. Probably thank you for that often. Nancy from Buffalo,
How how did you all handle being away from home
for such long stretches of time? Oh my god, I mean,
(08:54):
if I'm going to be completely out of you, I didn't.
I didn't handle it very well. It's touring is really
really difficult. I I mean, after every tour I've been on,
I've had a bit of of a meltdown, if I'm honest.
(09:15):
And I'm still sitting here now knowing you know that
I want to go on tour again, but at the
same time, I don't want to lose my mind, so
I'm even scared for the next tour. It's it's it's weird.
It's touring is really really hard. And what the only
way I can explain it is it's like you're taken
(09:36):
away from you. You know, you go away from all
your family and friends for so long, and then you
come back and everyone's changed and everything's changed and you
have to play catch up. But you're playing catch up
knowing for well that you're going to go again in
a year's time. So it's really, it's really, it's really,
(09:57):
it's really hard. But at the same time, it's is
incredibly addictive because I get to meet you and I
get to sing with you all, and I travel to
some incredible places and I'm doing what I love and
I'm performing, and the highs that you feel are and
are incredible. But the ways that I handle it, I
guess are, um, I exercise, meditation, trying to eat well,
(10:23):
trying to you know. Now, Luckily, you know, I've made
a bit of money now, so I can fly my
family out to certain shows if you know, if I'm
feeling really low or sad, I can fly my family out. Um. Also,
I handle it from the people I'm on the road
with most importantly that the people I have around me
are absolutely sensational in every way. And my online therapists,
(10:45):
so on the road therapists. So you know, there's there's
there's many ways to handle it, but the truth is
I don't handle it. I I find it really hard.
Oh we're done, We're done. Um, that was really really fun.
I'm in here in this room alone doing this, and
that was really really nice. I felt like I just
(11:06):
had some time alone with you all. Thank you for that.
Thank you to everyone for asking their questions. Thank you
to Romeo for your support and for having me on
most Requested Live tonight to talk about how do you sleep?
And I really really hope that you're all enjoying the music,
and then I can't wait to see you all soon.
(11:28):
Thank you,
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