I spent years growing up being told what my sexuality was.

I've been approached many times by many different people, and most people want to do something that I write and produce, and I'm just not into that.

I don't really feel I deserve something if I haven't had to fight for it. It's not a conscious attitude, and it's stupid and wrong. Sometimes you do deserve things without having to put yourself through agony.

Only time will set you free, just like me

I left school at 17 and was a star by the time I was 18 - in certain parts of the world anyway.

Still, the music was always there, and the lyrical capability was always threatening to show its head.

This was absolutely an attack on [British Prime Minister] Tony Blair, principally, and the perspective which is really predominant in Europe right now that he's not questioning enough of Mr. Bush's policies.