Sam Smith Nearly Quit While Making New Album: 'I Started to Lose Myself'

Sam Smith's new single "Too Good At Goodbyes" may have garnered praise from critics upon its release earlier this month, but the singer revealed in a new interview with Attitude magazine that the lead-up to its release was a tough time."There was a period, when making the record, that I was in a really bad place," he told celebrity interviewer Sir Elton John. "I got dumped, which wasn't very nice. Writing music about that kind of thing is normally like therapy for me, but when I got dumped this