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I'm not a pop star, I'm a rock star trapped in a pop star's body.
I'm not arrogant, I just believe I'm the best.
Art is not a thing; it is a way.
I'm not a god, I'm just a man who sings about gods.
I'm not a legend, I'm just a man who tells stories.
I'm not here to be liked, I'm here to be remembered.
I'm not a pop star, I'm a rock star.
I'm not a role model, I'm just a guy who sings.
I'm not here to be perfect, I'm here to be real.
I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man.
I'm not arrogant, I'm just better than everyone else.
So given a Time Turner, I would tell my 21-year-old self that personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two. Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone’s total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.
Now, I am not going to stand here and tell you that failure is fun. That period of my life was a dark one, and I had no idea that there was going to be what the press has since represented as a kind of fairy tale resolution. I had no idea then how far the tunnel extended, and for a long time, any light at the end of it was a hope rather than a reality.
What I feared most for myself at your age was not poverty, but failure.
I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.