Sam Ryder
Happy Place
Fearne Cotton
4.6 • 15.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Nerves and excitement are very closely related, but following a stratospheric rise to fame thanks to Eurovision, Sam Ryder makes a point to choose to feel the excitement. In this chat with Fearne, he reveals the truth about those glitzy afterparties and why he’d rather be at home playing with Lego... They also talk about how to understand what your purpose is, and why cool is the enemy.
Sam’s album, ‘There’s Nothing But Space, Man!’ is out on November 18th, and you can get your tickets for his world tour here: https://www.sam-ryder.com/
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Happy Place. I'm Fern Cotton and this is the show that values the |
| 0:06.9 | quiet joy of individual purpose over the shiny surface level stuff. Today I'm chatting |
| 0:14.0 | to Sam Reider. I just thank my lucky starster. I had a life before any of this happened |
| 0:21.6 | where I truly felt the film and not void of stress or tension or overwhelm. All of these |
| 0:29.0 | things are present because they're present in every human being but they're still the |
| 0:32.1 | knowledge that they're passing particles you know like it's just an emotion, same with joy, |
| 0:37.3 | same with euphoria, they're passing and they will go. So you don't hold on to joy just the |
| 0:42.6 | same as you don't hold on to pain. Sam is the man who earlier this year gave the UK its best |
| 0:48.5 | Eurovision result since 1998. His song Space Man was also the highest charting UK Eurovision |
| 0:56.3 | entry in over 25 years and me and my kids love it. Since then his star has gone stratospheric. |
| 1:05.0 | He's performed at Buckingham Palace, the British Grand Prix, at a Taylor Hawkins tribute concert |
| 1:10.6 | at Wembley Stadium and soon he'll be off on a world tour that will take him well into 2023. |
| 1:18.0 | Sam is 33 which as we discuss in this chat goes some way towards explaining why he's happy to admit |
| 1:24.4 | he'd often rather be at home with the people he loves playing Lego rather than a glitzy after party. |
| 1:30.6 | He's already had a solid lifetime to understand what truly makes him happy and what really matters to him. |
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