Cody Simpson Interview
Cody Simpson Interview
Cody Simpson's life has been a whirlwind the past few years since he moved to the U.S. from Australia to pursue a singing career. We first met him at Scholastic two years ago when he first started making some noise, and it’s really exploded for him since then. (Have you seen the video of our acoustic performance of Cody's song "iYiYi" from 2 years ago? Adorable, right?) He is a lot more grown up now (as you can see in this new video), and his life has a lot of cool perks like getting invited to Justin Bieber's birthday party, and getting court-side Lakers tickets. Recently, he came back to Scholastic to talk about his life now.
Cody: Um, a little. Yeah. Well, honestly I wasn’t like this back home. You know what I mean? I wasn’t a big artist back in Australia, so it all just kind of happened worldwide. Everything just kind of happened at once and I was just kind of like, “Wow.” You know, the world’s watching this now.
Q: What part do you like the best?
Cody: I love performing. I find that like one of my favorite things about my career. That and creating new music, like writing music.
Q: Have you been writing all along or are you doing more now?
Cody: I’ve been writing all along, but I’m definitely doing a lot more now than I used to, like up to creating the album. I’m doing quite a bit. I want to make sure that I’m involved heavily in the actual creative process and the production of the music. And, you know, I think I’m definitely doing that. So it’s good. Yeah.
Q: Are you in the studio now working on a new album?
Cody: I am. I’ll be releasing that over the summer. I have the first single from that. It’s called “So Listen” and features T-Pain.
Q: You’ve got great hair. So do you have a special hair care regimen?
Cody: Not really. Everyone expects me to have some kind of, you know, special trick or technique or whatever, and I’m just kind of like . . . I just kind of wake up and have a shower, dry it, and it’s kind of this and that. I run my fingers through it, push it back a little bit a couple times and then we’re good. You know, there’s nothing too complicated.
Q: Do you know how many girls are jealous of you? That sounds so easy.
Cody: [Laughter]
Q: Is there any place in the world that you really would love to go and see?
Cody: I would say Europe. I’d say Italy. The food and the scenery. Definitely one place that I’d love to go in the next couple years. There and to the Maldives. It’s just somewhere I think that everyone kind of dreams of going. I’m sure you’ve seen pictures with the clear water and like the bamboo huts out in the water.
Q: Who was your first celebrity crush?
Cody: Nikki Webster when I was like five. Now . . . Eva Longoria. She tweeted me the other day and I was very excited!
Aww. He's so grown up now, getting tweets from Eva Longoria!! Are you excited for the new Cody Simpson album? Leave us a Comment.
— Interview by Marie Morreale
OMG Cody ur so cute. btw Im cute,funny,and a GREAT artist!
Comment #1 | Posted by: Megan on April 27, 2012 at 09:50 AM
AWESOME!
Comment #2 | Posted by: Fairyemerald31 on April 27, 2012 at 09:51 AM
Awesome
Comment #3 | Posted by: Zikora on April 27, 2012 at 07:45 PM
people go so crazy for this guy. I'm not sure why.
Comment #4 | Posted by: supahman on April 27, 2012 at 07:59 PM
cody simpson you rock im you biggest fan p.s not literaly:D
Comment #5 | Posted by: fanmania on April 28, 2012 at 02:49 AM
COOL CODY !!!!!
Comment #6 | Posted by: Megan on April 28, 2012 at 10:40 AM
OMG!! cody is my inspiration i have been a fan since his very online video and i will to his last i just hope there never is one!! i love him til i die and i belong to his fanclub and wrote a book about his life!!!
Comment #7 | Posted by: andrea13579 on April 28, 2012 at 01:08 PM
I love CODY SIMPSON!!!
Comment #8 | Posted by: Lauren on April 28, 2012 at 02:56 PM
hey cody your song rocks.
Comment #9 | Posted by: citadelbreaking1 on April 28, 2012 at 04:44 PM
ok cody evrybody thinks your are awesome and all that witch for sure you are and nobody can treat you like a normal teenager when you want to be treated but my mom and I would treat you perfectly normal and would understand what you would be going through
Comment #10 | Posted by: alexandra on April 28, 2012 at 04:46 PM
this is awesome!i love u cody simpson
Comment #11 | Posted by: Animallover101 on April 28, 2012 at 05:13 PM
omg i <3 cody! xD
Comment #12 | Posted by: katrina on April 30, 2012 at 04:59 PM
cooool!
Comment #13 | Posted by: anjalie on May 01, 2012 at 05:39 AM
hey what up im the biggest fan
Comment #14 | Posted by: birdband276 on May 01, 2012 at 10:52 AM
megan i was gonna say that
Comment #15 | Posted by: kilo on May 02, 2012 at 07:53 PM
OMG! Cody Simpson is so cute and I'm toally buyin his new CD, So Listen. I<3Cody!
Comment #16 | Posted by: seastrong2 on May 02, 2012 at 11:00 PM
Great!!
Comment #17 | Posted by: kiki on May 05, 2012 at 07:14 PM
I seen c.s. on so radom. if you wonder who c.s. is it's cody.
Comment #18 | Posted by: kaylee on May 07, 2012 at 02:37 PM
I love you CODY<3
Comment #19 | Posted by: jackie on May 13, 2012 at 04:02 PM
Ahhh!! Awesome interview! I'd love to go to Italy...:)
Comment #20 | Posted by: Lydia on May 16, 2012 at 02:05 PM
TOTALLY!!! :D Cody Simpson is the second favorite singer of mine x] Nicki Minaj of course is #1 XD
Comment #21 | Posted by: PurplePenguin on May 18, 2012 at 12:48 AM
Random!
TRANSFORMERS! GREATEST MOVIE I HAVE EVER SEEN. I just saw all three have to read the books first.
Comment #22 | Posted by: fuschiafashionista on May 21, 2012 at 09:58 PM
i love you cody
Comment #23 | Posted by: fuschiafashionista on May 22, 2012 at 09:10 AM
i think justin beiber is soooo cuter
Comment #24 | Posted by: edwardo on May 22, 2012 at 12:06 PM
cody simpson is so cool and awesome
Comment #25 | Posted by: moonrisebig3 on May 23, 2012 at 04:20 PM