I love my hometown, but ‘Leave Fast’ is the way I felt when I was 17, 18 – it’s that fear that I’d never be able to do something else. Sam Fender Read Quote
I think honesty is an important thing when writing a song. If you can’t sing it with conviction, then no-one else is going to believe it. Sam Fender Read Quote
My dad was a club musician. He was always playing guitar and playing loads of soul records and ’60s rock n’ roll. Whenever he used to cook, he used to play Donny Hathaway, Aretha Franklin, The Kinks, and the Spencer Davis Group – a lot of really earthy things. Sam Fender Read Quote
I’m not an expert on politics, but there’s a bunch of bad people at the top who care about lining their own pockets before creating a society that looks after the vulnerable. Sam Fender Read Quote
I would cry if I met Bruce Springsteen, man. I don’t think I’d be able to handle it. Sam Fender Read Quote
It’s so surreal for us to be playing at Tynemouth Castle. It couldn’t be much closer to home. I’ve got so many mad stories of us all running around here as kids, and it’s mental that we’re going to be playing at an actual castle! Sam Fender Read Quote
I put enough pressure on myself already – I can sit here and work myself into an anxiety-filled breakdown without worrying what everyone else is going to think. Sam Fender Read Quote
Poundshop Kardashians’ is Newcastle on a Saturday night. Nobody wears coats – it’s all muscles and V-necks and fake tan. Sam Fender Read Quote
It’s impossible to let fame go to your head when you still live in North Shields in a flat with your mum. Sam Fender Read Quote
