When you first come out of the box, you want to play the 300-capacity place, then it's 1,600-capacity, then it's an arena - so, do you want to be in a stadium now? The ego keeps telling you that it's not enough.
When I got to the second album, there was an expectation, because we'd sold nearly seven million albums on the first record, that this would do eight or nine.
Everything around me is surreal. I get picked up in cars and go to celebrity bashes, and I get sponsorship on clothes, and it's great, and I really enjoy it. But you should remember where it all started: the music. That's the key.
I grew up in Southampton. My mum was a shop assistant; my dad was a carpenter. They broke up when I was eight.
Failure and success are part of the same seed. If you don't embrace your failure, you never really know what success is.
We tend to always want to obtain something new and something more, and we never really enjoy what we have.
When I grew up, I was living on a council estate overlooking a car park for a good 16 years of my life.
I never let anyone know I was insecure about it - it was my own little thing - but I did have a problem being overweight. I always felt people were looking at me in a certain way as opposed to who I really was.
I could never have dreamed of picking up an Ivor Novello for anything... but for Songwriter Of The Year, it's just amazing.
I love all my albums... I use the metaphor they're like my children: some do better than others, but you love them all equally.