As a kid, growing up, as far as I was concerned, I was Luke Skywalker. Any sort of small victory or any adversity I would come up against at school, I was like, 'How would Luke Skywalker deal with this?' Everybody was the Empire; anybody who bullied me at school was the Empire.

I've become really aware since putting out music that some people can't get past the acting thing. But acting was never what I meant to do.

I was a very anxious kid. I was bullied at primary school and responded by making myself as anonymous as possible at secondary school.

Bristol is known for having quite a good success rate of music - Massive Attack and Portishead, that drum and bass, dance music scene. I never listened to that stuff when I was a kid, but my parents did, and my parents knew some of those people.