Sam Ryder

I guess I'm just a guy who's singing his head off and going red while he's doing it.

It's part of us almost that keeps us in check. It's a voice where you can challenge it and make sure that it keeps you on the right path, ego unchecked is the problem.

I think no one is without ego. It exists in all of us.

Life's busy for so many of us now and you don't get to check in as much as you'd like with family.

I love Christmas songs and have always wanted to put one out, but never really had the opportunity.

I just want to step away from Eurovision, walk off that stage and know that I did the best job I possibly could.

Everything that Eurovision celebrates and is about is the best of us and I'm so so grateful that I got to experience it.

It's so important that we use the platform of Eurovision to celebrate solidarity and to shine light into darkness.

Having been a fan of Eurovision since I was a kid l I am so honoured to have been presented with the opportunity to sing at an event alongside some of Europe's most talented creatives, performers and songwriters.

When you get older and get to the place that I'm in, I know that my validation, happiness, purpose and fulfilment existed before people started coming to my shows so I'm not now in a position where I think I'm going to feel more validated if I'm playing in a stadium that doesn't exist.

I was impatient just like everybody is when they're in their late teens and twenties to realise their dream, to think, 'I'm good enough to realise my dream now, why isn't it happening?' in a very stubborn way.

It's music, you can't score music in a metric, but what you can do is have a lot of admiration for people who put themselves in the arena.

I think if you tell yourself you're under pressure, you're starting off on the wrong foot. It's hard to break out of that.

I just want to do everyone proud, and do the best job I possibly can.

What I gather is a lot of the members of the royal family had seen Eurovision and were supporting my song from home, which means a lot.

I feel incredibly grateful for every single little door that clicked open since Eurovision for myself and the team.

I've been making music since I was 13 years old, and it was always foot on the gas, full belief, full faith - even though I was absolutely bombarded with failure.

Cold water swimming is absolutely the best medicine.

You have to know yourself, know your value, know your boundaries.

Some of my earliest memories are singing along to Freddie Mercury in the back of my mum and dad's car.