I Think I'd Like To Be Best

I Maintain That When I Finally Retire From My Career In Music, I Will Go And Live Back In Wales - When I Am An Old Person, If I Live To Be An Old Person. The Water I Miss, And The Air, There's Something Different About It. And I Miss The Simple Life.

I Hadn't Even Released My First Proper Single When I Started To Feel The Strain Of Attention. But I Don't Believe That It Was The Attention That Was Giving Me Panic Attacks. I Think It Was Everything In My Life Colliding At The Same Time. It Really Did Get To A Serious Point Where I Couldn't Even Walk Down The Street Without Getting The Pain.

I Wrote 'lights' A Long, Long Time Ago. And I Expected It To Be On The Album, Because It Was - I Wrote It With 'biff' Stannard. And He Wrote Every Single Spice Girls Song And Every Single Pop Song Of The 90s, Basically. So I Thought, You Know, I Was Really Lucky To Work With Him, But I Didn't Think It Would Be A Big Song For Some Reason.

There Are Plenty Of Bands Who Never Get In The Charts And It Doesn't Mean That They're Not Any Good. Actually, A Lot Of The Top Ten Is Filled With Stuff That Just Sounds The Same. I Could Guess What's In There Now - Probably A Bit Of Gaga, Beyonce And Some U.s. R&b Males.

There Are So Many Things To Think About When You Make An Album. Like, Who Am I Trying To Impress? Am I Going To Get Respect, Critical Acclaim? Or Am I Going To Sell Lots Of Records?