I'm a big fan of the Pre-Raphaelites. Millais, Edward Burne-Jones, and I realised recently that my music is Pre-Raphaelite in a certain way, in that it reinvents an older era and romanticises it, puts it in this gilded frame.

I'm not a terrible smoker, actually. My major addiction, which is horrible, is straight boys.

Places that have experienced great defeat experience a kind of rebirth, which I think America has to do - unless we want to get more decrepit. I don't think we have to destroy the place totally.

But I want to deepen as an artist, and working with Shakespeare definitely points in that direction.

I've been thinking of trying my hand at rap. I've been recording snippets on my BlackBerry.

I have earned hundreds of thousands of pounds, but I can't seem to get to grips with money.

All these poses of classical torture ruined my mind like a snake in the orchard. I did go from wanting to be someone, now I'm drunk and wearing flip-flops on Fifth Avenue.