I am so confident and empowered by my sexuality; it plays an enormous part in my life.

Calum Scott

Categorized in : My Life I Am Confident Life

I remember learning as a kid that love meant loneliness and confusion.

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I'm kind of unlucky in love and I have, for some reason, always fallen for the straight guy.

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Just celebrate who you are and be happy with you are. Take all the ups and downs together, as you're only human.

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Most of my songs are inspired by both falling in love and heartache. And it was a turning point for me as a singer and songwriter as it dawned on me that I wasn't being honest enough about what I truly feel.

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'If Our Love Is Wrong' is, quite simply, my coming out song, as I was trying to wrap my head around my sexuality and was starting to learn about songwriting, and that my honesty and my authenticity came from my personal experiences and writing about stuff that genuinely bugged me or upset me.

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I don't consider myself a flag bearer in the parade, but I have never felt stronger about who I am.

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I tried to surround myself with people who have accepted me for being me. And I want to create that image to my fans as well. And that's the advice I give to them. To be happy for who you are, and to surround yourself with people who are happy for being you.

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For a lot of people, music is about the show, the lights, and all that. With Filipino music fans, they genuinely listen to songs.

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I started to feel songwriting was pulling different pieces of my heart out - the more I started writing, the more there was honesty.

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I was so terrified for so long about what people think about my sexuality, and I didn't wanna find myself in a position where I was losing my fans and couldn't do my job.

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The heart wants what it wants, and you know, if you're not careful, you can find yourself in a situation where you give your heart away, and it can get broken.

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I come from a very normal day job, a very normal upbringing, so I had six or seven years working in an office nine to five in human resources. I had the normal life and kind of thought maybe this is what I'm going to do for the rest of my life but still had that passion and that yearning for music.

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'Britain's Got Talent' just gave me that platform that I needed to share that with the world and be recognized, and now I'm able to travel the world and sing my music in places I never thought I'd visit - Dubai, Mexico, Brazil, so many different places.

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I'd always been a little bit uncomfortable talking about my sexuality just because it took me a while to fully accept it. I had a bit of traumatic time with my friends when I was younger, and it kind of just put me off talking about it.

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I've used songwriting as a tool, I've used it as a way of being able to talk about how I feel.

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I just wanted to sing, to get my voice heard. I knew I had to do everything possible to stay in the industry.

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There are a lot of songs about love and how it starts, whether that's realizing it yourself or coming to find it later on - but no sort of talk about the actual feelings that are created from love and passion.

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If you're real, you've never got anything to hide away from. You're not trying to fake anything, you're not trying to have this other persona - you're just yourself. And if I could be myself for as long as possible, I will.

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I'd like to think I'm a versatile artist without straying too far from who I am.

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I used to hate myself for being gay. I couldn't come to terms with it.

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