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Sam Smith reveals the "scariest moment" of his life

Sam Smith has been reflecting on his success over 2014.

In an interview with the BBC, the ‘Stay With Me’ star flagged up going to No. 1 with 'Money On My Mind', winning the Brits Critics’ Choice Award and attending MTV’s VMAs amongst his highlights of the past year.

On his night at the MTV awards ceremony, where he met Beyoncé, Smith said:

“Meeting Beyoncé was really weird. I thought I'd freak out. I'd put her on such a high pedestal she'd become un-human. Then you meet her and she is just a human. A very talented human, but just a human. I was the only person who was allowed to watch her rehearsal, so I said, 'I loved your sound-check. I think it's one of your best performances yet.' And she said, 'thank you. Your voice is like butter.' I keep telling people she said chocolate, but she actually said butter.”

The 22-year-old vocalist also recalled the “scariest moment of my life, ever”: performing on ‘Saturday Night Live’.

Sam explained: “SNL was the scariest moment of my life, ever. It was the first time I played ‘Stay With Me’ or ‘Lay Me Down’ on television. I don't think I'll ever be that scared again... Four million people watching and no-one knew who the hell I was. Four days previous to the SNL performance, I remember reading tweets from people saying ‘who the f is Sam Smith?’ [laughs].”

He added: “But it changed my life. You could feel it the morning after. I walked out of my hotel and people recognised me. ‘Stay With Me’ went to number two on iTunes. It was mental.”

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Watch Sam Smith’s ‘Saturday Night Live’ performances below: