Arlo Parks

Yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking.

I was like, I really don't know.

I need to work on it.

Yeah.

Oh, that's a good question.

I think usually quite awkwardly.

I mean, it depends on the compliment, I think.

But I do find them a little bit difficult to hold, I think, at times.

I always appreciate them, but I think there's something about, I often feel a little bit paralyzed as to how to respond.

My friend Lucy was talking to me about my music and she was just like, I feel like you have a lot of courage when you write and you admit a lot.

And I liked that.

That's lovely, yeah.

You know, the fact that there's this transparency and this vulnerability to the work, I really loved.

That was a lovely compliment.

I think, I mean, firstly, his voice as an instrument.

To me, it feels like a woodwind instrument or a cello.

There's something so kind of ancient and vast about it.

But also, you know, he's able to control it so effortlessly.

And it feels like it comes from this really organic place in him.

But I think even, you know, when it comes to his work, he's such a shapeshifter, but then there's still a really specific core of Sampha that I think stays untouched throughout the years of his creativity.