When I got into the music industry, I wasn't focused on being the most famous artist or even getting a major record deal. It was just to make music on my own terms or create my own image, do my own hair, do my own makeup.
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When you're famous, you don't get to meet people because they want you to like them when the present themselves to you, and you don't see the real people. -
And I don't want to live anywhere where I am famous. It makes me very, very uncomfortable, because it conveys an advantage over people, and I don't like that. -
I was brought up with psychics and tarot cards. My mum was always told I was going to be in a boy band and be famous as a singer. -
Some very famous directors have started in the mail room, which is just getting inside the studio, getting to know people, getting to know the routine. -
It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because I'm still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel I've got more to give than I ever have.
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