Let's play "Who Am I?".
"I’ve been very lucky, I’ve been working with some really brilliant different UK writers and artists. I did a song with Liam from the Sneaker Pimps and some stuff with a French guy called Dimitri, who’s a bit more alternative.
Cathy Dennis has written one and
Brian Higgins, who’s part of Xenomania, and that was lots of fun, he’s a very talented pop writer. There’s a brilliant girl called
Hannah Robinson who I ended up doing a lot of stuff with, we got on really well. I’ve also done some songwriting with Dan from The Feeling. I’ve just been enjoying the fact that there wasn’t any time pressure so I could write with lots of different people, and sometimes we got lots of brilliant stuff and other times we tried things out and they didn’t really work, but it’s just nice not to have to keep looking at the clock and going, ‘OK, we’ve got to come up with a hit by the end of the day!"
Hint: "In interviews I seem really nice and amicable, though whenever I invoke my performance persona I come across as bored and disinterested, as if I believe that what I do is beneath me somehow. This would be ok if my songs were strong enough, but unfortunately for me, I've only released two great singles in the past six years. Having been away for so long, I've somehow let Alison Goldfrapp steal my "pop for people who think they're too cool for pop" gimmick. It's good that I'm an articulate/interesting person and am working with so many quality songwriters now, because it would be nice to show that I belong on the same sub label as Girls Aloud." (not a real quote)
