I've always been dead set against festivals, really suspicious and wary.

Loneliness was tough, the toughest role you ever played. Hollywood created a superstar, and pain was the price you paid.

Onstage it was always comfortable for me because that's where I felt at home. Offstage it was a different situation. I was still shy offstage and unfortunately, my shyness and my inability to communicate and really have great conversations or be part of the gang - in inverted commas - led me to the drug addiction, which, you know, blighted my life for 16 years because I thought by doing that it would make me join in.

Nothing should be an issue when it comes to sexuality in the first place. Music is the one artform where people feel comfortable coming out.

I don't have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the musicians that I really love.

My old man is drunker than a barrel full of monkeys, but my old lady she don't care.

And I trusted someone to look after me on the business side of life.