I'm 39, and I would like to be able to make great pop music for another 20 years. And it feels like creating a sort of inanimate blond bob and allowing other people to play the role of the pop singer, it affords me a little bit more freedom in terms of my expiration date.

I'm sort of a gay man trapped in a woman's body when it comes to music sometimes - it's crowded in here!

I don't really even go out that much now except to walk my dogs, because I don't want to be recognised.

People aren't honest about the horrors of fame. The downsides are so overwhelming that, for me, there is no payoff.

I don't go to shows because I just want to listen to the music performed live. I want to get to know the person who's performing it. Or I want to, like, take away a sense that I had an experience that nobody else is going to have again, or a unique experience for that moment.

I'm sensitive and get easily upset and insulted.

I don't love performing, because it's nerve-racking and it's time - consuming to rehearse a whole set - and my time can often be better served writing music and just making it and putting it out.