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And do you think people want to make a cartoon, a caricature out of you because in a way you’re so fluid, you’re so non-specific, you’re so sort of boundary crossing that that’s actually quite scary and they need to fix you in a position that’s comic?

“Yeah I guess - yeah it makes the scary easier for them actually. It makes them put less value on it. So they can kind of laugh it off and say oh no this isn’t serious you know.”

What are they laughing off? What is it that’s quite threatening?

“Well they’re laughing off the scariness. You know sometimes when you are sort of scary to some people it’s their concept. Because I’m not scary - the people that really know me know that I’m not scary. I pretend very good scary. I can be very good scary.”

Why do you want to do that?

“I think it’s probably because of the way I was brought up actually. Because you know I was brought up in a very, very strict way. I was brought up in a scary way. And maybe that’s probably why my personality has this scariness. I’ve finally realised why I am the way I am and that scariness comes from the dark,, edgy part of my childhood.

“But I’ve embraced it and I understand it, and when I turn it around and I put it out there to the public or on the stage or whatever they’re just as scared as I was when I was little.”

Okay, so it’s kind of therapeutic then?

“It is.”

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