The truth is, I've always been wracked with self-loathing and terrible, paralysing depression.

I wanted to put out a solo record because I was stuck on a major label and sick of it.

A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.

I have a temper on me that could hold back tides.

My solo album is dead and buried. We had the funeral. It was sad and I cried a lot but it made such a beautiful corpse that we had an open casket.

I've got a lot of stamina and I enjoy people, so having lots of people around doesn't freak me out.

Possibly because I grew up not feeling very confident about my own physical appearance, I developed internal devices so that I could integrate into society.