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People speculate on your personal life all the time anyway. So I just think it's important to keep my private life private and my public persona more into music, you know?

It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical. But it's what everyone wants - to get everyone's attention, to have your music make a living for you, to be validated in that way.

At times I make music, but in private.

I don't think shoving my butt into people's faces will tell them anything about who I am. How is that connecting to your audience? What is that doing for your music?

Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.

And you realise you're doing a public service in making people happy - as a musician you can give people something a doctor, a lawyer, a politician cannot give them that. It's not scientific. It's spiritual - a good feeling. And although you don't know them personally, the audience are like your friends.

Like, I kind of developed my musical style in a vacuum. Even though I listen to a lot of stuff, the way I wrote was in my bedroom, really privately. It's still the way I write, actually.

My concerts are about me being very private in public, but I'm very protective.

I honestly in a lot of ways don't want to sing about my real life, because that's private.