I left Starbucks in 2015. When I was younger, I remember looking at Justin Bieber and wishing I had all these fans, but you know what? Everyone has their path, everyone's path is different, and this is where mine's going. I just didn't want to work at Starbucks. I wanted to be writing music all the time.

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Chill? I can't chill. I find it so difficult to sit still.

I didn't look like Rihanna. I was a bit chubby. I had puppy fat. I had a moustache. I didn't want to have lips; I didn't want a bum. I grew out of it, but I feel like everyone went through that phase of wanting to be skinny.

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Wanting Want Very

I was a bit late on Erykah Badu, but I don't think you can really be late on music. You discover it whenever; music is timeless.

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Time Music You

Good music is timeless, and if you create with that honesty, it will last.

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Time Music Good

It's very special that I can go through things - and write them down and record them - and so many people can relate. Not everybody can get out who they are and really feel better after they write.

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Write Who Very

I met Sade! I performed 'Blue Lights' at one of Drake's shows in London, and I met her backstage. She told me her son is a big fan. That was a moment when I was like, 'Wow.'

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Sad Mom Men

Michael Jackson was a Gemini. Kanye, Lauryn Hill, a lot of people that are amazing artists are Geminis.

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Art Amazing Tis

I was born in June, so I like summer, and my favourite part of a sunny day is when the sun sets.

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Art UN T

I did classical singing at school. I did exams in that. I'd sing soprano, and we'd sing in German; we'd do Schubert for my pieces, in Latin, French... I really enjoyed that. I kind of miss it.

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Uber Tin T

I want to be worldwide, international, in everyone's ears, and everyone listening to what I'm saying, because I think I say some good stuff.

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Good Yin Worldwide

I write all of my music.

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Music Write Us

Drake brought me out at the O2 in London and Barclays Center, and I'm on 'More Life.'

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Life T Rough

I just like wearing whatever makes me feel comfortable and confident. I wear what fits my mood.

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Whatever Wearing Wear

I've got so many melodies in my head.

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T Melodies Me

I'm not with a label, so I haven't ever felt pressure to be a certain way. I've got a cool team who just love music.

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Music Love Cool

Sometimes I observe stuff I haven't been through and write about it. I used to walk my dog with these 50-year-olds, and they'd tell me stories I could use.

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Time Year Write

I get so many people coming up to me being like, Aahhh! And I'm like, what the hell? I'm just me!

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Us Up T

A dream of mine is to write a 'Bond' theme tune.

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Write UN Tune

Wear what you feel comfortable in and what suits your mood.

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Your You Wear

I left Starbucks in 2015. When I was younger, I remember looking at Justin Bieber and wishing I had all these fans, but you know what? Everyone has their path, everyone's path is different, and this is where mine's going. I just didn't want to work at Starbucks. I wanted to be writing music all the time.

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Work Time Music

I've listened to 'Frank' so many times. She was so honest and herself. I think one of the hardest things for an artist to do is tell the truth, but that's what Amy Winehouse did, and it's what I want to do - if you want to write songs that connect with people, I think they really need to believe what you're talking about.

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One Christmas, I wrote a nativity play. But nobody turned up on the day of the performance apart from my brother and my cousins, so I just read the whole script onstage and made my brother pretend to be one of the animals at the inn.

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Paris is such a beautiful city.

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Independence is doing what you want to do, knowing that you're happy with the decisions you're making and that it's the best for you.

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I overthink everything, and one thing I find difficult is to actually be in the moment.

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A road trip in Cuba is probably top of my list.

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The first song I wrote was when I was 11. It was called 'Life Is a Path Worth Taking.'

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I believe a voice is a voice. I could wear a box on my head and still have a good voice.

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When we used to walk to school, I used to read off the walls, graffiti and stuff, everything. I used to write stories, but I'd never finish them. I wrote poems.

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When I found 'New Chain' by Col3trane, honestly, I couldn't stop playing it. It's a good road trip song because the beat just drives on.

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Because I'm on a tour bus, it's so hard to wash your face - we have to use, um, water bottles. But you know what? It's not about looking cute - it's about staying hydrated.

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My voice makes the genre because I sound like me on all my songs - I've made my own genre: Jorja Smith.

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I need to get a tiny bit more 'woke.'

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My dad will always criticize me. He doesn't care if it hurts my feelings. If I start acting a certain way, he would be like, 'Who do you think you are?' So many people can tell me, 'You're amazing,' but I don't think it. I'm really hard on myself.

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I just make my music. It's not too complicated.

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I want to be someone for young girls to look up to, for fathers to want their daughters to listen to me because I'm not rude, and I'm actually talking some sense.

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I've been singing most of my life. There's nothing better I could wish to be doing.

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For me, it's about touching as many people as I can and helping as many people as I can with my music.

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I'd like young girls to be able to listen to my music and take something positive away from it.

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The people who are the most powerful and have the most money sometimes don't value other people.

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I love anything about love.

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A lot of stuff doesn't faze me. I think it's because I was brought up in a small town, and normally, when you're from a small town, when you see a famous person, you'd be like, 'Oh my god. This never happens,' but I've always kind of been like nonchalant.

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Before I put 'Blue Lights' out, I deleted my Instagram and everything and started again.

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There's always been music in my house growing up. In the kitchen, there's a speaker, and we'd always have my mum's iPod in it - she never makes food without listening to music. And I used to watch 'Top of the Pops' with my dad.

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Obviously I've grown up around YouTubers, people getting millions of hits, but I was never anywhere near that.

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Most of me expressing myself comes through my music more than what I wear.

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There's always so much energy from me and my band. Lots of fun and twists in each song.

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Music is an outlet, so I'm not going to get things out that aren't true. Sometimes I do exaggerate - but only a little bit.

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I make music because it helps me. I feel better after I've written a song. I listen to my own songs, and they make me feel and think about stuff I'd done or someone said to me, and I feel a bit better.

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I'm not going to do a song just because it's with Drake.

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