There are some public figures who are very private and almost hide behind their work. I try to be as open as possible.

I just want to try - on a daily basis keep trying - to make music that I really love.

All I want to do with my life is try and make music that I really love, and so every day I try and work on music.

My mother and I were on welfare and food stamps until I was 18, so I've always had this ethos of, like, 'try and make a little bit of money now because you don't know what's going to happen tomorrow.'

A part of me wants to sort of try and sound cool and feed this myth that I'm some sort of glamorous lothario, but I was raised by women - my mother and her mother and my aunts - and as a result, most of my friends have always been women.