I bought a dodgy gold ring off a guy in Southampton. He told me to check it was real gold by heating it up with a lighter and pressing it against my skin, because real gold doesn't burn. I still have the scar on my left hand.
Life is all about how things rough up against you and how you see them and the vantage point you have from them.
Everything around me is surreal. I get picked up in cars and go to celebrity bashes, and I get sponsorship on clothes, and it's great, and I really enjoy it. But you should remember where it all started: the music. That's the key.
I'm an only child, so I got spoilt a lot. Which was a good thing.
In the course of my career, which has been an incredible rollercoaster ride, I look at the journey and think it's been immense.
We can all accept criticism of creative work, but to be publicly ridiculed for it is incredibly difficult to deal with.