It is forever going to be me, and it takes the pressure off my next album because that’s what you’re going to get. I have no regrets and falling in love with that person I really don’t regret because it got me six Grammy nominations.Ī lot of artists don’t get the opportunity you did, making their first album on their own terms. It’s the same with falling in love or your career or any decision you made in your life. Because you’ve gotta respect in that moment that it felt right. I don’t like when artists say they don’t like their first records. Now, it’s more like there’s a beautiful relief to it where I don’t feel that way anymore. PHOTOS: Show highlights | Red carpet | Top nominees | Quotes | Best & worst | Backstage But I’m less lonely now, because when I was in love with the person I wrote the record about it was a constant loneliness all day every day. You’re always going to feel that at certain times in your life. Even if you’re married with seven children there are going to be nights when you’re away from them and you’re going to miss them or there’s going to be nights where you’re with them and you miss being single and having no responsibilities and that’s loneliness. Has some of that loneliness subsided in the wake of everything else that’s happened? Its success has taken you around the world and made you a household name.

You’ve talked at length about the loneliness that inspired the album. Here’s more of that conversation, including new album plans, guilty pleasures, handling fame and whether or not he’s still lonely.

Smith also solidified his place in history by becoming the first openly gay man to win a Grammy (he winked toward it by thanking the guy who broke his heart).Īhead of Smith’s Grammy run, we profiled the singer for a cover story that ran on Grammy Sund ay.

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