..every song is a different character. and we don't stop, its like a symphony. itjust keeps going throughout. you're in character throughout? well, i switch them. i understand that. so, it's one heck of a performance. i mean, you are a performer. i want to take you back and then talk through your career a little bit. to be blunt about it, at school, you were an overweight kid who got teased, who had a tough time, who had tough times at home as well with parents who struggled, and your mum died young? yes. how is it that you turned yourself from a small—town kid with problems to this big—time performer? oh, i don't look at myself as a big time performer. i don't. i don't view myself in that... ..that vision. i refuse to allow them, in any advertising for an album,