Anytime I write something that's trying to be too smart, it doesn't work.

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• Emeli Sande:

  Any song I have to work on longer than a day, I just leave it. It's not gonna work. Everything that

• Emeli Sande:

  I always knew I wanted to be a musician, and I always knew I wanted to write, 'cause the people I w

• Emeli Sande:

  I'm not too bothered about what category my music goes in and there's no point in limiting in who y

• Emeli Sande:

  I wanted to make an album that melodically people can connect to; something that reflects our times

• Emeli Sande:

  I try to speak of a love that not necessarily romantic. I think there is so much love between peopl

• Emeli Sande:

  We started very slow in America. It was small acoustic shows. We played places like Los Angeles, Ne

• Emeli Sande:

  I built a reputation as a songwriter in the industry before my own hits. People were used to coming

• Emeli Sande:

  I tried to bang down a lot of doors but Virgin were the only label who believed in what I was doing

• Emeli Sande:

  'Clown' was written when I couldn't find anyone who believed in me as an artist. Maybe those labels

• Emeli Sande:

  I was finding it very difficult to find a label that understood what I wanted to do and really beli