I've been inspired by people's work, but I never grew up with posters on my bedroom wall or obsessed with one person.

I don't understand people's obsessions.

The idea's the idea: It's about what you do, and not who you are.

We live in a very strange world where everything is so accessible; if you like one song someone did, you can see what they ate for breakfast or what kind of sunglasses they wore.

When I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something, they couldn't put a genre on it - it was where indie and urban kind of meet in the middle. I thought that was quite exciting.

I think 'fan' implies somebody who's submissive, sycophantic, in awe of everything you're doing.

I'm a little bit older, I've traveled the world, spent lots of time in New York and Paris and lots of inspiring places, and I still feel alien.