Born on October 12th

"My fans have been incredible since day one... Literally, the only reason I get to do what I do! I love every single one of them, and I am still being discovered by people! Just want to share what I do with everyone!"

"I'm kind of unlucky in love and I have, for some reason, always fallen for the straight guy."

"Just celebrate who you are and be happy with you are. Take all the ups and downs together, as you're only human."

"I had told one of my friends that I felt like I might be gay or that I just wasn't into girls, and I was abandoned."

"I would say I am one of those people who just love to connect to people doing something I love. Can't lie, love a ballad, so expect big, powerful, emotive stuff from me!"

"I've been a huge fan of Adele, Sam Smith, and Ed Sheeran, and those amazing artists draw inspiration from their present and past experiences; they write songs from their heart."

"I purposely didn't change the pronouns in 'Dancing On My Own' so that it was from a gay man's perspective."

"Two gay guys doing a beautiful duet - I think it would just be so powerful, you know."

"I used to hate myself for being gay. I couldn't come to terms with it."

"I met a guy, and we were seeing each other for about a month or so, but as it got more intense, I started to freak out a little bit. I hadn't been in a relationship for quite a while, and I just said I was going away and not sure if it was going to work."

"The heart wants what it wants, and you know, if you're not careful, you can find yourself in a situation where you give your heart away, and it can get broken."

"I started to feel songwriting was pulling different pieces of my heart out - the more I started writing, the more there was honesty."

"I feel very privileged to do what I do, so I'm just going to keep working hard and enjoy every minute of it because it could be over just like that."

"Song writing has been a lifeline for me."

"I am doing something I love, travelling the world, meeting fans, feeling confident, and I am no longer restricted by my sexuality."

"My mates who are younger than me are all slagging me for it - saying I am so much older and my crow's feet are showing."

"The amount of people that have said, 'You've inspired me to be confident. I've come out to my friends because of you,' that reduces me to tears every time, because I'm just, like, little old me from Hull has had an implication on somebody's life. That's massive to me. Massive."

"'Britain's Got Talent' just gave me that platform that I needed to share that with the world and be recognized, and now I'm able to travel the world and sing my music in places I never thought I'd visit - Dubai, Mexico, Brazil, so many different places."

"As a singer, you want to connect with as many people as possible; that's my whole thing."

"The creative process has been a little bit of an experience, really - to try and make that work for me. The only way I know how to do that is just to remain genuine, humble, and true to everything I know already in my life."

"When somebody says, 'I don't like your cover'... that's fair enough, but then this person has just written to me and said that they've come out to their family because of my interpretation. So I've got to balance everything. And yeah... that warms my heart."

"For a lot of people, music is about the show, the lights, and all that. With Filipino music fans, they genuinely listen to songs."

"I remember learning as a kid that love meant loneliness and confusion."

"I will continue to be open in my music and in interviews and keep those conversations going about the issues we face as an LGBT+ community until those conversations no longer need to be had."

"I want to reach out to everybody with my music and my album, but you're never going to please everybody. Someone's going to say something because, you know, it's an opinionated industry."

"I tried to surround myself with people who have accepted me for being me. And I want to create that image to my fans as well. And that's the advice I give to them. To be happy for who you are, and to surround yourself with people who are happy for being you."

"I've used songwriting as a tool, I've used it as a way of being able to talk about how I feel."

"To be in the charts and hanging around with such huge names in the industry just feels like a complete privilege! I can't even explain how it feels - complete dream come true."

"I'd always been a little bit uncomfortable talking about my sexuality just because it took me a while to fully accept it. I had a bit of traumatic time with my friends when I was younger, and it kind of just put me off talking about it."

"I'd like to think I'm a versatile artist without straying too far from who I am."