Do you like Tim Tams?
Yes. Very much. I don’t eat them though because the country from which I come has Tim Tams and the country to which I emigrated- immigrated- emigrated, whatever, do not have Tim Tams- does not have Tim Tams.
Do you really think there is “more of you to love”?
*laughs*
Is that what it still says? I thought I’d changed it to athletic.
My MySpace page is very reticent to change. It’s very difficult to adjust. Is that the same for everyone’s MySpace page? Like I go and edit it and it doesn’t show up for days and days and days. And that thing where it said I was a female fire-breather or whatever, I never did that and I couldn’t change it back either.
What was the question? Oh, do I think there’s “more of me to love”. No, I don’t think I’m a fat person but I’m a-typical as a male in my attitude to my body, as is indicated in quite a lot of my lyrics. I’m hot, though. For an old person.
How do you feel about your minor celebrity status?
Fuck you!
I’m very happy that I’ve managed to get a career by doing the things that come most naturally to me rather than compromising anything. It’s interesting to me that after all these years of trying to be an actor and all these things, that the thing that gave me minor celebrity status was just doing exactly what I wanted to on stage. That’s a great thing to be able to say that you do whatever you want and that’s what you’re most successful at.
I think it would suck to be proper famous in a lot of ways, more than I thought it would suck before I got a minor celebrity status. I get glimpses of what it would be like to be proper famous when I go to Edinburgh because during the festival you get recognised everywhere so it’s just a microcosm of what it would be like. I’m not under any illusions of what my fame’s like in the real world but in Edinburgh you do get a glimpse and what it does is it makes you see yourself from the outside and I reckon it turns you into a fuckwit. I think that’s why real famous people lose their anchor.
Having said that, such is my trajectory and my ambition, I’m not gonna stop. I can’t see a time where I’ll go, “I’m gonna limit my exposure”; I’m not gonna do a Kitson. I just seem to be hardwired to try to keep doing stuff that more people like. I think we all are – “All we really want is affirmation” etc – and so I want more people to like my stuff. And if I ever catch a glimpse of anyone not liking my stuff it completely fucks me up. It’s ridiculous. You’d think having 950 out of every 1,000 people like your stuff would be enough but the other 50 just freak you out.