After burnout led to a self-imposed retreat from the spotlight, the musician is back with a new album. He explains how the break took him in a new musical direction - and why being a superstar would be his worst nightmare
It was perhaps too subtle. When I shook Tom Cruise's hand, I asked him if he would be in the game the next day. I didn't need to tell him that it was the quarter-final of the World Cup between Spain and Belgium, played last Friday in Los Angeles.