Lewis Capaldi on Glastonbury 2023 episode while performing 'Someone You Loved'

He's known for his certified diamond song and the UK's most streamlined song of all time with Someone You Loved. He has more than 30 billion combined global streams. He is a two-time Brit award winner, two-time Grammy nominated and multi-platinum global superstar and now Lewis Capaldi is stepping back into the spotlight after taking two years away from touring and performing his new single Survive. Our Stephanie Ramos sat down with Lewis Capaldi to hear about his return. Your music is just phenomenal. It is so nice to hear some of your new music like Survive. Your new single Survive is a brave anthem that addresses your condition with Tourette's. Yes I'm a very brave boy. You are. You're a brave boy and this is a brave anthem. So how has the song helped you return to music after a two-year break? Well it's been it's just been a nice sort of way to come back. I wanted to have a song come out that wasn't, a lot of my music is a bit woe is me and a bit boohoo and sad and I wanted this song to be like less pathetic, let's put it that way. So I wanted to have something that was a bit more um triumphant than my previous offerings so this one's all about like getting through stuff and surviving. You have some pretty powerful lyrics in your song Survive. I'm going to read some of them. You write, I swear to God I'll survive if it kills me too. I'm gonna get up and try if it's the last thing I'll do. So tell us about those lyrics. Yeah it's just yeah it's about sort of persevering through something. I think I am quite uh I'm very, I can slip into woe is me quite easily. I really had to just have a sort of mindset switch where I was like I can just, I can actually, it's on me to get up and do this and fix this and change things so um yeah that was that lyric. There was a moment where you were struggling emotionally to get through a song on stage but your fans they they helped you cross that finish line. Yes. Walk us through that. What was that moment like for you? Oh it was horrible. I hated it. It was like the worst day of my life. Um I yeah everyone always says to me like oh that must have been so beautiful and lovely and I was like no I was like get me off stage at once. This is a horrific experience uh so yeah that's like one of the worst days of my life. So thanks for bringing that up. I know. But your fans were right there for you. How did that feel to hear them singing the lyrics? It was lovely. At the time it was obviously a bit more like oh this is intense but watching it back now it's like a lovely sort of heartwarming thing. And you were there two weeks ago performing Survive. How was it to be back on that same stage and in performing this brave anthem? Yeah it was good. It felt amazing. Yeah it felt really special and just like a whole sort of full sucker moment. I always wanted to um when I sort of got to the point where I was like oh I can come back and perform again. I knew I wanted to do it at Glastonbury to sort of as almost like a mental little thing for myself that I could overcome the thing that I wanted to finish what I couldn't finish the first time around. Thank you. So let's go back a little bit. Your star is rising. This was a few years ago. 2019 right. Your star is quickly rising. You're starting to feel these tics on stage. What with your mind? What was your process? What were you thinking was going on? I thought I was dying. I often go to that um jump to that conclusion if anything is going wrong in my body. Um I thought I was something was something wrong with me. I had some degenerative disease and I sort of yeah was going to doctors trying to work out what it was and then like about months and months and months like six to nine months or something um of going to doctors and trying to get an answer and being prescribed antidepressants and all this stuff. I went to this neurologist who told me that I had Tourette's or that they thought I had Tourette's and then at all like the old all the sort of stuff that had happened in the like that growing up a lot of stuff started to make sense. Like all these little things I used to do when I was younger like blink really hard or like cough or make noises or like clench my fists or whatever. It was like a real um uh like I was nice to get some clarity and it sort of put me at ease a bit. Divinely Uninspired to a hellish extent was the biggest selling UK album of 2019 and 2020 and won the BRIT award for best new artist and you've had two GRAMMY nominations. So what is something that you're looking forward to with this next album? Losing my third GRAMMY is a big goal of mine. Looking forward to that in a big way. But you'll be nominated. I mean the nomination is big too. I don't know. Yeah it's huge. We don't know about the nomination of course. It's not as good as winning. Let's be honest though. Let's be just flat out here. Everyone and everyone always everyone who wins always goes oh it's just a pleasure to be nominated. Yeah because you won. It's a nice thing to win them as well but um I'm joking uh the uh I don't really um know. That's what I'm saying this time around I'm less and maybe it's not a good thing to not be goal oriented but this time around the accomplishment is getting back and playing and doing stuff and being out here doing stuff like this again and having um yeah just having the sort of buzz of making music again and releasing it and playing shows and meeting people and um yeah getting stuff out there. I feel like the last two years I've really realized how much I missed um performing and doing music. This is all I've ever done. And you're doing it from a more stable place. You're mentally healthy. You're you're stronger and you're teaming up with BetterHelp. Is that right? So tell us about that. Yeah so BetterHelp and I uh are offering 734,000 free hours of therapy um to people uh out there because it's like a thousand hours for every single day that I took a break um and it's just a case of therapy was like a really big thing for me um over the last two years. It's really helped me get back to where I want to be and get back to like a steady place and feeling you know sort of calm and uh you know better up up top. Hopefully it helps a lot of people. What a great conversation. Our thanks to Stephanie for that.