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Oh, yes. I knew I was weird by the time I was four. I knew I wasn't like other boys. I knew I was more fearful. I didn't like the rough and tumble most boys were into. I knew I was a sissy.
I'm a 50-year-old guy making music for over 20 years. I've been writing songs since I was 20, so it's really been 30 years, and it's always been personal, but I've always told stories.
Most writers, by the time they're 60, must have revisited their childhood a dozen times.
I don't feel like I'm writing music for gay people. I'm a gay man who is writing music about one tiny little experience of what it's like to be a human on this planet.
With memoir, you have the clay of your life to work with. When you're writing a novel, you have to make the clay first.
I expect that in 40 years' time I'll be writing political tomes and working for an organisation like Oxfam.
By the time I turned 18, I moved into a little chalet of my own and felt very grown-up.
By the time you get a job, you know how to behave in a meeting or how to write a simple memo.
There is no magic in all the world like that magic when you sell your first bit of writing.
