I never really set out to do anything in the charts with music. It came as a total surprise that I did, and it’s fun.
My life is brillant, My love is pure.
I have friends who were friends of mine before I did music and they are my friends now, and we share life experiences. It’s no fun unless you’re sharing with people, looking out for them as they are looking out for you.
It may be over but it won’t stop there, I am here for you if you’d only care.
I am a dreamer but when I wake, you can’t break my spirit, it’s my dreams you take.
I write, “Give me reason but don’t give me choice, because I’ll make the same mistake again.” I think that’s what most men want to be told.
My parents are still together. I have two sisters. I travel the world and they are the people I speak to.
Absolutely, it’s a really weird stage because at the minute, I can walk down the street and be unrecognised, lead a normal life, but my label and everybody is warning me that will be changing and I’m in for a rollercoaster ride.
I don’t know how to write without thinking what people would want. You don’t know whether they want you to be black or white, so you kind of get a gray, something in the middle.
It’s taken a long time but eventually when I had the songs in place and demos right and I found myself a manager, that’s when everything started happening quickly but I think that’s always the way it is.
Will you be my shoulder when I’m gray and older? Promise me tomorrow starts with you. Getting high, running wild among the stars above. Sometimes it’s hard to believe you remember me.
And the one job my father knew of, that he’d had experience of himself, was the Army, so he could help me in that direction.
If you get up on stage and brag, I don’t think that’s very brave. It’s braver to get up and take your clothes off. And I do that every night.
Things take a long time, but when it’s right things move fast.
I have been told by people that I should not be seen clubbing with good-looking women, but I can’t see why not. Why be a pop star otherwise?
I have fun with it and I am honest and open about the way I lead my life and don’t mislead anyone. I’ve had the time of my life and thank God for that, it would be such a waste otherwise.
I think sensitive is the wrong description of me. I’m British, actually, so quite bad at expressing myself in conversation, as any ex-girlfriend will tell you. I’m probably emotionally stunted.
It’s always nice to be able to capture your life’s experiences in a song and hold the emotion in that way.
As a singer-songwriter who gets up on stage and sings about those things that make me vulnerable is an amazing experience. You get up on stage and effectively take your clothes off in front of thousands of people.
I always wanted to be a Muppet. So when ‘Sesame Street’ approached me to guest star, I thought: ‘I’m going to be on this!’ It’s pretty incredible stuff.