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Sam Smith has started working on a new album.
The 'Money On My Mind' hitmaker released his debut record, 'In the Lonely Hour', earlier this year, but is already well on the way to completing his second album having already settled on the name and cover art, as well as some of the tracks.
He revealed: "I've already come up with the title, the concept, the artwork, everything.
"I'm already recording really rough demos on the road."
The 22-year-old crooner recently received six Grammy Award nominations for his first record, but insists he hasn't been able to rest because he is always writing songs to express his emotions.
He continued: "I believe if you're a creative person you won't be able to stop creating. I can't stop writing."
However, fans of his first album may be disappointed as he has confirmed his sophomore record will follow a different theme from that of unrequited love, after releasing his demons in a new song.
He explained: "The reason I'm happy is because something clicked about four weeks ago.
"I wrote a song. It's about my family and something that happened in my life as a kid which has really scarred me as a person.
"It was the most honest record I've written in my whole life. It's all just clicked."
The star added he is also hopeful about working with his pal Ed Sheeran on his new music, after recently striking up a friendship with the 'Thinking Out Loud' singer.
He told The Sun newspaper: "He's one person, when we're talking about celebrities in the industry, who I'd actually count as a friend. Him and Jessie Ware.
"Ed's an amazing man. He helps me and gives me advice. I would love to work with him."

Madonna is planning a world tour in 2015.
The 'Hung Up' hitmaker wants to mark 30 years since her groundbreaking 'Like a Virgin' concert series from 1985 with a string of shows across the globe in support of a planned new album.
A source said: "This is going to be one very special tour. Madonna wants to pull out all the stops, especially because it is 30 years since the 'Virgin' tour.
"Like her 2012 'MDNA' tour, where she played 88 dates in places including Europe, South America and Asia, Madge will be ­travelling the world. Once the new record is finished she can concentrate on the concerts."
Despite already having nine huge tours under her belt, the 56-year-old singer wants to "push boundaries" and offer something new with her 2015 gigs.
The source added to the Daily Mirror newspaper: "Madonna knows that in order to stay relevant she has to keep reinventing herself and push boundaries.
"The new tour will show a side of her that no one has seen before."
OneRepublic frontman Ryan Tedder recently revealed he had been working with Madonna on "her best stuff in more than a decade".
He added: "The tracks I've done with her are really hard to explain."

Noel Gallagher would have "eaten Bastille alive".
The 47-year-old star has hit out at the state of the music industry, accusing bands like Bastille of failing to inspire and saying working-class people are no longer represented.
He said: "Well you only have to look at the charts, what happened at the end of the '90s, all those bands used to be in the Top Ten, like us, Manic, Pulp, The Verve, Suede and Blur, and I think bands like that have been marginalised and sidelined.
"There's X Factor and all that kind of thing, can you name me the last great band that came out of this country? There's not really been any great bands in the last 10 years."
Speaking on BBC Radio Four's 'Mastertapes', Noel took aim at Bastille.
He observed: "Arctic Monkeys and Kasabian, that's 10 years ago now and shame on those two bands for a start because they didn't inspire anybody else. The working classes have not got a voice anymore, there doesn't seem to be a noise coming from the council estates, you know what I mean?
"Music is very middle class, I'd have eaten Bastille alive in an afternoon in the '90s, one interview, destroyed, gone, never to be heard of again. Easy, had 'em for breakfast. My bass player summed it up, we're constantly saying, 'Where is the next band coming from?' and he rightly says, 'Never mind the band, where are the people?'
"When I first started I wanted to get in the charts and wreck it, like stamp Phil Collins out and Wet Wet Wet, they've got to go, and all that '80s gear, we don't need that anymore. I don't see anything from the working class, I just don't see it."

Azealia Banks says her former record label weren't "cool enough" to "understand" her music.
The '212' rapper parted ways with Universal Music Group earlier this year after expressing her dissatisfaction with the label on Twitter and she's now revealed she found it "crippling" to work with them.
She said: "I guess they were more excited by the idea of me than my actual music. They were excited by the idea of this cool girl who was going to make all this cool music, but they weren't cool enough to understand it."
The 23-year-old star claims that while she enjoyed the expensive facilities to begin with, she grew tired of having to please her corporate bosses.
She explained: "I was working on whatever I wanted in all best studios, all hours of the day and night whenever I wanted it, in whatever city I wanted. It was nice."
Referring to her Twitter messages begging to be released from her contract, she added: "I was hurting. It was crippling."
However, Azealia has gone on to release her debut album 'Broke With Expensive Taste' and is looking forward to remaining unpredictable.
She added to The Sunday Telegraph newspaper: "Just get bigger and better. That's all I want to do now."

Albert Hammond Jr lent Kyle Falconer his underwear.
The View frontman has confessed he shared more than just a laugh with The Strokes rocker - who is producing the band's new album - after borrowing a pair of boxer shorts from the 34-year-old musician.
He told NME magazine: "We share the same banter and toilet humour. He's just one of the gang now - he gave me a lend of his boxer shorts the other day. He's bringing his Strokes secrets to The View.
"If you walked into the studio on the first day, you would have thought we'd been friends for years."
Kyle added that the group - also made up of Kieren Webster, Steven Morrison, Pete Reilly - have embraced Albert's hands-on approach to producing their new album and already feel like he's become part of the group.
He said: "He's playing and coming up with parts - it's almost like he's a member of the band. We're doing pre-production during the day and laying down the tracks at night. We were stand-offish to the idea at first, thinking 'Nobody can rearrange our songs'. But Everybody's really embraced the idea. It keeps you on your toes."

Redfoo is envious of saxophones.
The 39-year-old singer has admitted to feeling jealous of the brass instrument after it stole the show on his new single 'New Thang'.
When asked how it felt to share his music video with a sax player, Redfoo - real name Stefan Kendal Gordy - shared: "The sax was trumping me as the artist. I did a duet with a saxophone. That's why in the video we've got the Sax Man. He represents that line. And always I'm like 'Hey?!'
"My part's pretty cool ... but that saxophone."
And the 'Sexy and I Know It' singer noted how the saxophone has its positives because ladies love it.
He told BANG Showbiz: "I was coming up with the beat and I realised that the saxophone line, girls would always hear the sax and be like, 'I like that!'"
The LMFAO rapper - who split from his girlfriend Victoria Azarenka in June - said rebounds and romance were the main inspiration for his new tune.
He shared: "I wanted to write a song about when you're maybe on the rebound or ... everybody likes something new.
"A new somebody, a new something. I wanted to make a club song that was fun and cheeky, so you could point your finger and be like, 'You could be my new thang.'
"I always like to make songs that have a narrative or you can step into it first person and act it out."
Redfoo's new single 'New Thang' is out on December 15th.

Idris Elba "shattered" Neon Jungle's dreams.
The girl group have a crush on the 'Luther' actor and were delighted to meet him at a party - but he refused to pose for a picture with them.
Amira McCarthy said: "Idris Elba shattered my dreams. Je's so hot but we met at an event and he didn't want to take pictures. He didn't want to say hi and he didn't want to make eye contact with us."
Asami Zdrenka added: "But he was at a public event so he should've expected it."
However, their bandmate Jess Plummer was more understanding of the situation.
She said: "He was with his wife and I'd gone up to him beforehand. I think when Amira came over, he'd just had enough by then. So I can empathise with him a bit."
Asami has a huge crush on One Direction, and though she gets overwhelmed when she sees them on TV, she insists she doesn't get starstruck when they meet face to face.
She told heat magazine: "When you meet them as individuals, you forget that it's One Direction because they're just normal. But when I see them on TV, I'm still such a super-fan.
"Every new video they have, I have to stop it in the middle because I'm hyperventilating so much."

5 Seconds of Summer were almost arrested for meeting their fans.
The Australian quartet get mobbed wherever they go but are always happy to share time with their loyal supporters when they can - but rapidly changed their plans to go outside after a concert when police warned there would be severe consequences.
Calum Hood said: "I remember the police threatened us in Dallas because they wouldn't let us meet the fans after the show.
"We were like, 'We're gonna meet them' but they didn't look too pleased. One of the cops said, 'If you do, we're going to arrest you.'
"We backed down pretty quickly."
The 'Don't Stop' hitmakers - which also include Ashton Irwin, Luke Hemmings and Michael Clifford - are always astonished at the lengths their fans will go to to meet them.
Ashton recalled to Top of the Pops magazine: "In LA, fans were waiting outside the hotel and were like, 'How can we hang out with you?' I told them if they hired a French Horn band they could.
"It was just a joke but an hour later, I was watching TV and heard a brass band. When I looked outside there were four guys with their instruments, playing on the side of the street."

Lily Allen brought a choir of children on stage for her Christmas show at O2 Academy Brixton in London, last night (12.12.14).
The 29-year-old singer played a sold out performance at the venue and celebrated the final date of her 'Sheezus' tour with Christmas-themed staging and a choir of young children who joined her for an emotional rendition of her 2013 'Somewhere Only We Know' cover, during which fake snow fell from the ceiling.
Speaking of the choir's significance, she told the audience: "Almost 20 years ago I was sitting in my playground at school with my Walkman and I was listening to Oasis and this supply teacher came along and said 'it sounds like you have an alright voice'.
"She gave me singing lessons, and I really probably wouldn't be here without her. She runs a choir now for kids so they're going to join me on stage now."
The festivities didn't stop with her wintry single, as her band were also dressed up as a variety of Christmassy characters including kings, a shepherd, and a hairy elf, and she entered the stage in the manger of a stable for opening track 'Sheezus'.
She told the crowds at the end of the song: "Man, I fell out of my manger then. Little baby Sheezus did fall. It's nice to be here though, you lot."
The singing sensation - who has daughters Ethel, three, and 23-month-old Marnie with husband Sam Cooper - performed hits from all three of her albums and insisted on three costume changes which showed off outfits ranging from a glittering blue frock, through to golden jogging bottoms and a light-up, glow-in-the-dark dress.

Lily Allen's setlist:
Sheezus
Not Fair
LDN
As Long As I Got You
Who Do You Love?
Everyone's At It
Close Your Eyes
URL Badman
Smile
Life For Me
Miserable Without Your Love
Littlest Things
Somewhere Only We Know
Or Nah (The Weeknd cover)
Hard Out Here
22
L8 CMMR
F**k You

Encore:
The Fear
Who'd Have Known