Sam Smith Is Taking Time Off For An Understandable Reason

Sam Smith wants to take some time out from the limelight in order to focus on dating!

He told ET Online: ''I've been playing now for three years nonstop. And it feels right for me to just go home and live my life. Just be a 23-year-old.

''It'd be good to actually spend some time dating I think.''

His first album called 'In the Lonely Hour' was inspired by heartbreak, revealed his second record is a work in progress and there is still ''a long way to go''.

Sam said: ''I've been inspired the whole year - my love life, and the downs and ups have never stopped - so I'm always inspired by stuff like that. I have been writing a little bit, and already I've found direction on what I want to say and how I want things to sound. But there's a long ways to go.''

Fair enough Sam, but we'll miss you!