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There's a difference between a pop star and an artist. Pop stars have to be perfect all the time; an artist is allowed, on occasion, to suck. And I put myself in that category because I sometimes suck. I'm not trying to please the masses. It's not going to happen, so I don't try.

The best of pop in our country is among the best of the arts that we do. And Britain does the arts as well as, and sometimes better than, anybody else on the planet.

I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.

I don't see myself as a pop star, just a singer.

There is a lot of snobbery towards pop music, to me and pop in general - it's kind of a despised art form.

I'm definitely a pop artist at heart.

There is actually no such thing as an Artist type. 'Artist' is just an economic designation, a box you tick on a form. We are all people, and we are all creative.

Artists are like everybody else.

I pride myself on being the type of artist who can work half in the R&B world and half in the pop world.