I stupidly said no once to *NSync recording one of my songs. Who does that?!
But I liked the song so I just recorded it for my album. Well, Spin went on to sell about a million copies, and their’s went on to sell at least 10 million. If you do the math, it’s crazy. But I never make business decisions. I just make decisions from the heart. I wish that I could do it, but whenever I try to for someone else I just feel really cheesy. When I write it for me, it’s believable because it is about me, where I am at, and what I’m going through, and it has my voice in it. It’s sincere. I guess when I’m doing it for someone else I tend to dumb myself down, and I feel like a sell- out. You recently performed to a huge crowd at Stockholm Pride just a few weeks after coming out. How was that experience for you? That was a wonderful, wonderful performance. I was a bit nervous, because prior to coming out I’d played a few gay events Manchester Pride and G-A-Y in London and there was this kind of fear that I had from the audience, where they were looking at me thinking, Is he or
