Smith: "I'm a melancholy person. It's how I'm always going to be."

Smith: "I'm a very ambitious person. I've been like this from a very young age. As early as 12 years old, I used to have panic attacks because I needed to know my life plan."

Smith: "It sounds depressing, but I think when you truly love someone, you'll never stop loving them."

Smith: “My plan is just to love harder than I've ever loved before, hide nothing, and embrace that I'm an imperfect human being. Oh, and sadness - sadness is everything."

Smith: "Yes my music is from a queer perspective, but my music is for everyone."

Smith: “Over the last few years, as I’ve become confident in my skin, I’ve got loads of wonderful romantic attention. It’s been incredible. I’m so open to it. And I know what I want and I know who I am and I’m excited for that.”

Smith: “I find short, fast romances romantic. There's a beauty to dark imagery."

Smith: “This is what I think people don’t understand: that the first five years of my career, I almost felt like I was a woman, at times, dressing up in male clothing. It didn’t feel like I was regressing in any way. It just felt like I was trying new things out.”

Smith: “Talking about my deepest and darkest secrets to the world makes me feel better. It's cathartic."

Smith: "My music is almost like vomit! It's a horrible way to put it, but I feel it, I say it, and I doubt myself all the time throughout my whole life, but when it comes to music, I just don't. I don't doubt myself."

Smith: "I was just pushed to sing in front of people, and I did enjoy it, but also I was petrified all the time."

Smith: "I believe in God, but I don't know what it is - if it's a he, she, a he-she, or anything. Who knows what it is. All I know is that I feel like there's something else there."

Smith: “There's always been a hunger in me not necessarily to be successful, but to be an icon."

Smith: "I've had an amazing life, but I think I was born with a little bit of sadness in me. I've always been attracted to those things, whether it's sad movies, sad music... when you're sad, you feel everything in a greater way than you do when you're happy."

Smith: "I'm a vulnerable, sensitive person. I overthink everything."

Smith: "When I was at school and wasn't having a great time or when music wasn't going very well, I would eat, eat. Eating would make me feel better; when I felt lonely, I would eat."

Smith: “It's my job to have ups and downs because it makes good music."

Smith: "I'll be excited when I get my heart broken properly for the first time. I'll be like, 'Thank God I've experienced something. Someone wanted to kiss me.' That's when it's going to be interesting: When you break up, they're taking a piece with them."

Smith: “Just because you're selling out shows doesn't mean you deserve better treatment than the person next door."

Smith: "I get really self-conscious about people staring at me. It sounds so weird. As a performer, as an artist, these should be the things that I'm used to. But that's not the case. When people stare at me, I freak out."

Smith: "I don't want to make music that is hot now; I want to make music that is hot forever."

Smith: “My cross earrings are a mini statement; I wear them every day! My whole dream is to be iconic, and the way you dress yourself is so important."

Smith: “When I find the right person, nothing else will matter, but I'm prepared to kiss a lot of frogs."

Smith: “When I write sad songs, I feel like I'm sewing up a scar in me, and the outcome always feels so much better than when I write happy ones."

Smith: "I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food."

Smith: “Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-night stand,' you know, I just can't explain the feeling. It's unreal. You feel like you've just read your diary to thousands of people and they've gone, 'It's okay. We still love you.'"

Smith: “You love who you love, and I can't help that I like guys."

Smith: "I don't go to celebrity parties a lot. I don't really enjoy them because I really like going for it in parties. And sometimes at celebrity parties, there is no dancing on tables because people... it can be a little judgmental at times. So I tend not to go unless it is Taylor Swift's birthday party; then it's amazing."