Steph Claire Smith

And she even said, like, I know I'm not like, you know, my voice isn't sent from heaven or whatever.

Like, it's obviously something that at an early stage, she was told she wasn't even a great singer.

And through her entire career, that voice has still been so loud to the point that she ended up getting to play...

at Glastonbury, perform at Glastonbury, which was something she was going to do when she was younger and then it was when she got cancer and had to pull out.

She ended up doing that much later in life in her career and she, like, she says in the show that when she was on that stage, that was the moment that she, like, was like, oh, you've really done it?

I'm like...

that was the most like 20 through like 20 years after of like having such an incredible career but it just goes to show like no matter what your success looks like externally or what other people might think of you unfortunately there are some things that can be said that we hold on to as an insecurity that can honestly take decades to shake if you ever actually get to shake them and

I feel like she – I feel like there's still something in the back of her mind that like she wouldn't confidently say like I'm an amazing singer or whatever.

Do you know what I mean?

Like even she said – like she said it in an opposite way of like, you know when you parcel a compliment that doesn't really sound very strong?

She kind of did that when she said like I know I haven't got like a voice sent from heavens or whatever.

Yeah.

It's like you don't need to – like no one's saying that you sound like the best singer in the entire world.

You don't need to be that to be a successful like music star.

We know that.

But it's obviously something that's just really still sits with her.

And it just made me think like unfortunately things that can start as like sometimes they're not even insecurities, you know, and then someone says something to you and maybe it's a time in your life where you're very vulnerable or maybe it's because you're really young but for whatever reason it really sticks with you and regardless of whether it was an insecurity before that moment, it's then something that you can recite for like the rest of your life.

Yeah.

And I've certainly had those moments and have like a number of different things.

Well, so when I was thinking about this, I was like there's too many kind of areas in my life and probably phases of my life where different comments have been made that have really stuck with me that have taken a really long time to shake.