The 36 Best Raw, Silly, and Profound Lewis Capaldi Quotes From How I’m Feeling Now
If you love the music of Lewis Capaldi, his new Netflix documentary, How I'm Feeling Now, is a must-watch.
The documentary intimately follows Lewis's rapid rise to fame—and all of the ups and downs that come along with that. It showcases his creative process just as closely as it details the toll sudden viral success can have on a person, from Lewis's dealings with imposter syndrome and the pressure to make great music to his own struggle with his mental and neurological health. It's sometimes sweet, sometimes foul-mouthed and will make you laugh out loud just as it's tugging at your heartstrings, and we've never seen anything quite like it. That's why we've gathered all of Lewis's very best quotes from the doc and shared them all below.
On imposter syndrome:
"I think I've never been more insecure in my life than I am now."
On the path to stardom:
"From here on, I will climb through the celeb hierarchy. I'll start, naturally, on the C-list. Sure enough, I'll climb up through the B's, then through the As. No hiding place now."
On the celebrity life, and where it heads:
"I shall wear the finest garments. I will dine in the finest restaurants, in the finest cities. And when all is said and done, I shall lay at the bottom of a pit…"
(Lewis Capaldi: How I'm Feeling Now via Netflix)
On appreciating the little things:
"Ordinary is such a remarkable thing. Do you know what I mean? There's something to be said for that beauty in, like, an everyday life."
On there being no place like home:
"I've kind of learned how much that I actually do love where I'm from."
On pushing himself to success musically:
"Music is something I really care about. One of the few things I care about enough to put that much pressure on myself. If it's only you putting pressure on yourself, it's only you who can, like stop."
On music reflecting life:
"But I feel like… I do feel like we're in a good place. The last two years have been a bit all over the shop. The fact that the album reflects that in some ways could be a good thing. I listen to the album and I'm like, 'I really like this.'"
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On getting back into the swing of things:
"Right now, I find it very hard to see a way back to playing on stage. This thing I did every single day, I can't believe I ever did that. Having this feeling… It feels like you're starting all over again. It's quite large."
On finding his footing again:
"I've been singing the best I've ever sang, got so much more energy. It's almost been like a big sigh of relief. We're doing all the right things to get to a point where I can handle it all."
On his strange, incredible life:
"A global pandemic is only in the top three weird things that have happened to me in the last three years."
On dreams becoming reality:
"Making the first album, touring the album, recording it… I think it was as close to dreams coming true as you could possibly get."
(Lewis Capaldi: How I'm Feeling Now via Netflix)
On the fleeting nature of fame:
"You can only be the next big thing for, like, a year."
On fame and change:
"A friend of mine who's a musician told me that fame doesn't change you, it changes everyone around you."
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On his first musical influence:
"My oldest brother, Warren. He was the person that kind of got me into playing music. He wanted to play guitar, I wanted to play guitar."
On mentally editing his own documentary:
"Do you know, in documentaries where people go, 'I've got a song.' and they play a scratchy version of it, and then you cut forward like a year? 'Mm, I hope it does well.' Then it just, you know, in documentaries where it skips forward, crowd's going mental, and they're all singing the song and it's a hit. It'd be good if one of those, um, did that."
On reading:
"I still don't have a journal. I don't read. It's not cool not to read, I wish I did, but I don't have the attention span. I have the attention span to play songs on stage for people."
On his viral social media pages:
"People come up to me in the street like, 'I love your Instagram, man,' and I'm like, 'I'm a singer, too.'"
On the perks of the job:
"If you want pizza, all you have to do, and this is crucial, is be famous."
(Lewis Capaldi: How I'm Feeling Now via Netflix)
On self-doubt:
"I'm not confident in my abilities as a songwriter. And I think it's got worse, the more successful I've got."
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On feeling like a fake, despite everything:
"Impostor syndrome, I think you can have that at any level. That bleeds into every single decision you make and everything you do. It's always just seemed alien, people that turn up and see me live and see me playing."
On his parents selling their house:
"And to not have your childhood home where you grew up, it's a bit… That's also a weird thing. I don't know why, but when I think of that, I feel really odd. I get a knot in my stomach. Not being here anymore, feels like kind of one of the last… things about my life beforehand that's not there. Feels like a safety net kind of thing. And us this not being here anymore, that feels a bit strange."
On the struggle to get a solid diagnosis:
"See if you google 'anxious twitches.' You will find shoulder shrugging as the top one."
On feeling that pre-show high:
"This is a good buzz. Anticipation fills the air."
On his musical process:
"The way I write songs is I sit at a piano for four hours and I hate myself."
On forgetfulness and the jitters:
"Good gig last night. I can't remember anything because I was so, uh, scared. Um, but hopefully, a good gig tonight."
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On the pressure to create great music:
"There's like, skin in the game now. Rather than just me singing my silly little songs. Other people are depending on me."
(Lewis Capaldi: How I'm Feeling Now via Netflix)
On struggling to write:
"I never thought about failing before. It's something I've thought about the last couple of weeks a lot more. I don't know if that's maybe playing into me not wanting to write songs. My own confidence in my own abilities being lower now, despite the fact that we've just done something quite incredible. It still stems from that sort of… 'I won't be able to write any good stuff. Let's go to L.A. where all the best writers and producers are, and write with them. And maybe they will come up with some magic or whatever.' It just doesn't work like that."
On figuring out his mental state:
"I feel like I'm in a race against the clock to get my mental health in order."
On panic:
"When I have a panic attack, it feels like I'm going insane. Completely disconnected from reality. I can't breathe. Like, I can't feel my breath going in."
On his exposure to death from an early age:
"I went to a therapist, she was like, 'Do you not think that's maybe got something to do with the fact that your grandmother and your aunt both died when you were, like, 3 and 4, within a year of one another in a short space of time? So you're surrounded by this. You're immediately faced with this thing, People die.'"
(Lewis Capaldi: How I'm Feeling Now via Netflix)
On the preciousness of our time on earth:
"I think something that's like trickled into my subconscious is that our time here is, like, finite. That feeds into my anxieties about my own health and my own mortality."
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On the relief of a diagnosis:
"This twitch became out of control, I didn't know what it was at the time. I've since learned that I have Tourette's. Right, that makes complete sense now, when I look back. I got told I had Tourette's a week ago. Know how many people I've told I have Tourette's since? It's outrageous. People think I'm bragging. But it's just good to like, 'I've got this thing by the way. This is what it makes me do."
On working to get better:
"I know what the steps are to get better. The onus is on me to do it. I can't expect anybody else to click their fingers, and it's done. And I know that in myself, I can. I can do it."
On enjoying some fast food:
"Okay. So I actually had two McDonald's yesterday. It was class. A welcome break."
(Lewis Capaldi: How I'm Feeling Now via Netflix)
On finding the perfect comeback single:
"'Forget Me' feels like a funny way to come back. With like a song where the main lyric is, 'I'm not ready to find out you know how to forget me.' For someone who's been away for three years and the rest of it, it does speak to my ego slightly."
On the impact of his music:
"I kind of wrestle with the magnitude of things. It's now become this bigger thing and it means stuff to other people."
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