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Sam Smith would have "cried and crawled off stage" if he fell during his BRIT Awards performance.
The 'Stay With Me' hitmaker has insisted he would not be able to "power through" like Madonna did, when she suffered a nasty fall whilst on stage at the ceremony.
He said: "I used to fall up the escalator on the tube all the time. I'd do what every guy does and look back as if there's something wrong with the ground.
"I like to think if I'd been like Madonna and fallen at the BRITs I'd have powered through, but chances are I'd have cried and crawled off stage."
The 22-year-old star also revealed he is getting back into "work mode", after celebrating his awards haul of four Grammys and 2 BRITs and is focusing on writing and recording new tracks again.
He told Stylist magazine: "The BRITs was amazing but I feel like I've celebrated enough now.
"Since the Grammys I've had a couple of weeks flapping about not actually writing any music, it's time to get back into work mode."
Despite having recovered fully from his BRITs hangover by "eating cheese", the singer was forced to cancel his gig in Milan, Italy after suffering from a bout of laryngitis.
He wrote on Twitter: "I'm sorry to any fans in Milan tonight and to all who have travelled from abroad. I have laryngitis. I promise I will make it up to you x
"Milan I'm back in June and I will sing the hardest I've ever sung. That's a promise x (sic)"

Marvin Gaye's daughter is glad the "legacy" of her father has been upheld.
Nona Gaye has been celebrating a jury's ruling that Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke must pay $7.3 million for plagiarising her father's 1977 hit 'Got To Give It Up' with their track 'Blurred Lines'.
She told the New York Daily News: "It's a beautiful day when you can sit in a courtroom and have justice stand.
"I feel free from the pain. It felt like a painful joke, those two years knowing our song was copied and not getting any serious feedback from their side. That's our father, that's what he left for us, our legacy."
Nona and her brother Frankie have also requested that sales of the hit track cease until a decision is made about how the future profits will be divided up.
Richard Busch, the attorney for the Gaye family said: "We'll be asking the court to enter an injunction prohibiting the further sale and distribution of 'Blurred Lines' unless and until we can reach an agreement with those guys on the other side about how future monies that are received will be shared.
"We'll be doing that in about a week or so."

Madonna wouldn't accept a lifetime achievement prize if it were offered to her.
The 56-year-old singer has revealed she would not be keen to be presented with such an accolade because she believes she has so much more music to create.
When questioned as to whether she would accept such an award, she said: "I've got lots of life left to live. Offer it to me in 100 years and I might reconsider."
The refusal comes just weeks after the star suffered a painful on-stage tumble at the BRIT Awards ceremony at London's O2 Arena during a performance of her single 'Living For Love', when she was pulled to the ground by an Armani cape she had been unable to untie.
While disappointed the show had been overshadowed by the accident, Madonna admitted she was also frustrated and confused by designer Giorgio Armani's subsequent comments, in which he said she was "very difficult" to work with.
She explained to The Sun newspaper: "I don't know why he said that. I was surprised. I thought we had a good relationship. When I read it, I was like: 'Oh really?'
"He made me a lovely outfit. I was very appreciative of it. After the performance, he sent me flowers.
"He thanked me and said he hoped I was OK and applauded me for getting back up on the stage."

Charli XCX thinks Kanye West is the best artist of her generation.
The raven-haired singer praised the 'All Day' rapper following his recent performances at the Grammy and BRIT Awards, and admitted she broke down in tears during his performance at the US ceremony last month because she is such a fan.
She confessed: "When I was at the Grammys, I was watching Kanye perform and I cried because I thought it was amazing. I was like, he's an artist, he's the biggest and best artist of my generation and I'm getting to watch him live."
However, the 22-year-old insisted she was sobbing because she was so "overwhelmed" by the experience of seeing him perform, and not because she was upset by the show.
She told 4Music: "I'd never seen him play before and I was very overwhelmed because I think he's brilliant."
The 'Boom Clap' hitmaker's comments come just months after she took to social media to reveal she believed the musician - who is married to Kim Kardashian West - is "the best".
Back in October she tweeted: "had such an intense kanye realisation last night - he is the best and probably always will be. (sic)"

Mark Knopfler is looking for a fan to make his next music video.
The 65-year-old rocker - who is best known as the lead guitarist, songwriter and vocalist for Dire Straits - has partnered with creative company Talenthouse to find aspiring film and video directors to create a video for his next single, 'Wherever I Go'.
The song has been taken from his new album 'Tracker', released on March 16, which will be his eighth solo studio record since Dire Straits disbanded in 1992 after six studio LPs.
Michael Rivalland, senior marketing manager at Virgin EMI, said: "This is the first time Mark has ever done anything like this. Traditionally he is a private person but he's allowing music out there before the release of 'Tracker' to encourage a new generation of creatives to interpret and create from his work."
The video can be filmed or animated, with a panel of judges deciding which entrant is successful, awarding the winner $4,000 (£2,657) prize money, in addition to their clip being used as the track's official video.
Entrants have until March 23 at 6pm GMT to submit their ideas for the video through the Talenthouse website.

Marvin Gaye's family want to stop sales of 'Blurred Lines'.
The Motown star's children Frankie and Nona successfully won a lawsuit on Tuesday (10.03.15) claiming Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke plagiarised their father's 1977 hit 'Got To Give It Up', and now they are fighting for the the track to be taken off sale until they have decided how future profits from the song will be split.
The Gaye family attorney Richard Busch told Rolling Stone magazine: "We'll be asking the court to enter an injunction prohibiting the further sale and distribution of 'Blurred Lines' unless and until we can reach an agreement with those guys on the other side about how future monies that are received will be shared.
"We'll be doing that in about a week or so."
The Los Angeles jury has ordered the musicians to pay $7.3 million (£4.84 million) to the late singer's family for copyright infringement, despite both Pharrell and Robin insisting they are innocent.
During the week-long trial, Pharrell said: "[Marvin Gaye] is one of the ones we look up to so much. This is the last place I want to be right now. The last thing you want to do as a creator is take something of someone else's when you love him."
The chart-topping track is believed to have sold almost 15 million copies since it was released in 2013, making it one of the best-selling singles of all time.

Noel Gallagher thinks Ed Sheeran is a "dude" for turning down a charity gig.
The 'Wonderwall' hitmaker revealed that when he called the 'Thinking Out Loud' singer to ask him to perform at a show in aid of Teenage Cancer Trust, he turned it down and insists Ed deserves respect for being the only person who has told him they couldn't perform.
He said: "The only one f***ing person that has ever ever ever said, 'I can't do it, I just got back from Australia I can't be f***ing arsed man, I'm f***ed, but I will definitely do it next year' - and I crossed his name off the list - was Ed Sheeran!
"He actually called me back, you know what I mean, he said, 'Right I'm ready now, I wanna do it', and I thought, 'You know what, what a f***ing dude.'"
The former Oasis singer appreciated Ed's upfront nature and insists that most artists agree to perform and then pull out a later date.
Speaking in the new issue of NME magazine, he said: "You'll be there on the phone listening to someone blatantly lying to you. People say they can do it and then get their publicist to call up later and say, 'Oh we can't do it now, he thinks his cat's gonna have a stroke that particular afternoon'.
"You're there, cajoling, with some **** who plays a banjo about whether they're gonna turn up."

Kelly Clarkson has insisted a collaboration with Demi Lovato will "totally" happen.
The 'Heartbeat Song' hitmaker admitted the pair were close to working together on a song in the past but they were forced to reschedule.
Kelly told MTV News: "We almost got to work together, but I was pregnant and she had asked me to sing, I totally was down, but it just didn't work out.
"She was touring, I was super pregnant and not feeling well and it didn't work out this time, but it totally will... I love her; she's so sweet. Every time we see each other, she's always like, 'Kelly Clarkson, she's so nice, and so awesome, we're both Texans.'"
Meanwhile, Demi previously admitted that Kelly, 32, would be her "dream collaboration".
She tweeted: "Dream Collabs: Kelly Clarkson (duh), Eminem, Ed Sheeran, Marc Anthony, Christina Aguilera, Macklemore, Lil Wayne, Nicki Minaj, & Drake (sic)"
The 22-year-old singer also recently expanded on her reasons behind wanting to work on a track with Eminem.
She added: "I would love to work with Eminem actually... I can relate to him with being in recovery and things like that so I think we could make something awesome together."

Rihanna, Madonna and Kelly Clarkson will perform at the iHeartRadio Music Awards.
The second annual ceremony will also host performances from Sam Smith and Iggy Azalea, who have each received four nominations for the awards, and who will go head to head in the Artist of the Year category.
Elsewhere at the event - which will take place on March 29 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles - Meghan Trainor, Jason Derulo, Jennifer Hudson, Snoop Dogg, Nate Ruess, Alesso, Florida Georgia Line and Jason Aldean will perform.
Taylor Swift has also been confirmed as an attendee at the ceremony having been nominated in multiple categories including Artist of the Year and Song of the Year for 'Shake It Off', although it has been reported she will not be singing.
Organisers of the event have teased a number of high profile collaborations will take place during the evening alongside the 11 awards, which are voted for based on hashtags on social media.
Last month, Rihanna caused controversy when her scheduled performance at the BRIT Awards in London had to be scrapped just days before the ceremony as she had failed to attend any rehearsals.
A source told The Sun newspaper: "Everything was prepared for Rihanna's performance but she was a no show.
"The organisers are furious as she was one of their biggest coups."