-I know I saw you at the Grammys this past weekend.
-Yes. -Before the Grammys,
you were on vacation, though, in Australia and Japan?
-Yes. Well, vacation in Australia,
and Japan was just work. -Oh, really?
-Yes. -What do you do, like,
when you go on vacation? What does Sam Smith do?
-Oh, God, I eat a lot of cheese. [ Laughter ]
-You eat a lot of cheese. -And I drink a lot of alcohol.
[ Laughter ] -They go well together.
-Yeah. And then get very burned in the sun.
-Yeah. -That's kind of it.
'Cause I don't tan, so... -But do you go out?
Do you go to bars or clubs or... -Yeah, oh, my God. We've had --
I had some mad nights in some gay bars in Sydney.
I had one really bad night where I, like, puked at the bar,
'cause I was so drunk. [ Laughter ]
-What are you talking about? You can't do that.
-I did a shot and then I... I did a shot of tequila,
and it went down -- -Down the wrong way.
Oh, yeah. No. -And then I just puked
in my hand. [ Laughter ]
-So, needless to say, that night didn't go too well. Oh, yeah.
-Oh, that was a great night. -Oh, really?
-Great night. Yeah, great night. -And what was Japan?
Japan was just -- -Japan was work, just doing
promo for the record. -Yeah.
-I mean, some kind of -- -I mean, it's number one
in 10 countries and you just... -Yeah.
-You went to Korea as well, you said?
-No, karaoke bars. -Oh, sorry.
[ Laughter ] I thought you went to Korea
as well. Oh, tell me. Oh, karaoke bars?
-Yeah. -You do karaoke?
-I don't, but my band did. I hate karaoke.
-You do? -Mm.
-Why? -I don't think karaoke works
if you -- if you can sing.
[ Laughter ]
[ Cheers and applause ]
-I guess so. You're right. Yeah, yeah.
It's not fun if you actually can sing for a living.
-No. -I don't know, but I would love
to see you get up and do something
that wasn't your song. -Nah. Never.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Yes. -No, never.
-Everyone wants it. You would never, ever do it?
-No. I'll only -- I'll only ever do Fifth Harmony.
-That would be the only one that you would do.
-Ever, that's the only one. Ever.
-That's the only one. Do you remember the last time
you were on this show and I talked you as -- we were talking
about the other album, which I loved. And I kept --
I told you that my favorite song was...
♪♪ Money on my mind, money on my mind ♪♪
♪♪ I do it, I do it for love, and money on my mind ♪♪
♪♪ Money on my mind, I do it ♪♪
Yeah, and I sang it just like that.
Probably even better now, than...
[ Laughter ] And you said to me, you said,
"You know what? I don't really love that one of my songs."
-Yeah. -"I don't really love
"that song that much, and now you reminded me how much
I don't like it, and I'm never going to do it ever again."
-Yeah, guess what? I haven't sang it since.
[ Laughter ] -I just want to
apologize to your fans. I love that song.
Did I make you not want to sing that song?
-You made me hate it even more than I did.
[ Laughter ]
-I'm so sorry! It's a great song.
-It's all right. I don't know if I'm ever going to sing it again.
[ Laughter ] -Why? It's so fun.
-It's annoying to me now. It's annoying. [ Laughs ]
-Because it -- I had that effect? No, please.
-No. -You have to take --
You have to forget that I did that.
-No, it's all right. I'll revamp it on the tour.
And you can come and do it with me when I play in New York.
-Oh, really? -Yeah.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-I would love to. I'd be honored.
-That would be amazing. -I would love to do it.
-I'd love that. -You are playing --
You're playing Barclays Center, June 27th,
Madison Square Garden, June 29th.
But when does the tour start? Where does it start?
It start in England? -Yeah, in England.
Somewhere called Sheffield. -Oh, yeah.
[ Cheers ] -Which is very, very random.
Is someone from Sheffield? -Yeah, we allow --
Yeah, we have two people from Sheffield
that come to every show. [ Laughter ]
They don't leave. But that's where it starts.
And are you going to be around for the royal wedding?
-No. I'm -- it's on my birthday, the royal wedding.
-How dare them! -I know. I know.
-Guys, check with Sam Smith if you're going to get married.
Hello! -I know.
-It's un-- -It's good, it will be
a royal-themed birthday. -Yeah, why not?
-So, that will be fun. I'll be in Portugal.
-Would you ever play at the wedding if he invited you?
Or they invited you?
-Um, I mean, my songs are quite sad for weddings.
[ Laughter ]
-I'll tell you what song is not sad.
♪♪ Money on my mind, money on my mind ♪♪
♪♪ I do it, I do it for the love ♪♪
Oh, I love it. It's such good.
-I'll do that. I'll do that at the wedding.
[ Laughter ]
-Sorry, sorry. I won't bring it up anymore.
I want to talk about "The Thrill of it All."
Congratulations on a number one record right here.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Thank you. -So many good songs on here.
I heard that you -- you recorded 130 --
or wrote 130 songs for this album.
-Yeah. Mm. -130 songs.
-I think a bit over, yeah. -But there's only 14
on this record. -I know, I know. I know.
-So what happens to the other 116?
-They're gone. Dead. -What do you mean?
-Yeah, I know. I was running over --
over 2 1/2 years, and I write all the time.
And I have a theory that for every one song, there's like,
10 songs that go into it.
It's like a journey to get to that one song.
-Wow. -That's how it works with me.
-Oh, my goodness. -Yeah, it's quite a lot.
-But maybe -- can't you just put out a record called,
you know, "Songs For Jimmy"? [ Laughter ]
You know, and just put out -- just put out 20? Just...
-No, 'cause you would only want the "Money on my Mind" ones.
[ Laughter ] -I'll take some remixes.
Exactly, no. I would just be -- I mean, wow.
I guess you have to do it to make those --
-Oh, there's bad ones, though. -Oh, yeah.
-I'd say at least, like, 80% of them are just bad.
-Really? -Yeah.
Sometimes I'm either, like, too depressing when I'm writing,
or I'm trying to sound like Beyoncé, and it doesn't work.
[ Laughter ]
-Do -- do you ever get sad and you go... [ Exhales deeply ]
"Start writing, 'cause this is a good time. This is a good --"
-Yeah, yeah. -Really?
-And sometimes it's too depressing.
-You're like, no, this is evil. -Yeah.
-Yeah, just throw it away now. -Yeah, it's too much.
-And then are you ever in too much of a good mood?
And you go -- -Oh, yeah, yeah.
-This is too cut -- -I've written
so many happy songs. -Yeah.
-I really have, and they're just awful.
[ Laughter ] -It just doesn't fit you.
-No. -No. Well, I can't wait
to see you on tour. It kicks off in the U.K. in a few weeks.
Guys, "The Thrill of it All," Sam Smith. It's out now.
[ Cheers and applause ] Go to samsmithworld.com
for more info on his worldwide tour.