That background helped me a lot, because it taught me to fend for myself from a very early age, and to be responsible. It was an upheaval of an upbringing, which seems to have worked, I guess.

Everybody's at war with different things...I'm at war with my own heart sometimes.

My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him.

This duo inside of me causes the perfect opportunity to live and learn twice as fast as those who choose to accept simplicity.

I grew up in Denton, east Manchester, and was raised by my late father, Reg, a barber.

If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.