I was very much a mess, as a person. I'd come from a very turbulent teenage life, with parents who had broken up in a very bad way, and a lot of illness at school.

I'm the most indecisive person in the world. I'll do three versions of a song, then think, "Is the demo better?"

I became the magnet for a lot of scary aggression. Cos it's scary Up North!

I thinks it really interesting how they throw the world music samples in there. I often wonder what it would be like to do something like that, but use my lyrics and my kind of style.

I thought, I might not look my best, I've forgotten half the words to my songs and I'm suffering from post-traumatic stress, but I've just got to get out there and do it.

A lot of youth today have become very narrow and conservative in a way, whereas we in the older generation are kind of living it.

Sometimes, with autobiographies, it turns into a bit of score-settling. And looking back, I don't feel the way I did then, and you kind of grow up and let it go behind you.