Posted December 14, 200618 yr From http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun Drugs make Robbie fatCameron Adams December 14, 2006 12:00am ROBBIE Williams talks about sex, drugs and anti-depressants. You took a break on this tour before Australia. What happened? It was precautionary. My head unscrambled and I needed to put it back together. Melbourne is the end of your entire world tour. It is the absolute a--- end of the tour. Great place to finish. I'll be selecting members of the audience to sample. There were rumours you went to the Priory for depression. Not true. I've never been to the Priory. I expected myself to be Superman this year. I expected too much of myself and needed a break, not because I'd relapsed or I was depressed. I was purely exhausted. Every time you get on stage you expect the mechanism for performance to be there. I'd done that many shows to that many people that it's just physics. Something's got to give. I got up on stage one night and went, "Oh, it's not here" and I s--- myself and developed stage fright. It was awful. It was through exhaustion. OK, so no Priory then. The Priory can go f--- themselves. They're awful. It's supposed to be a place where people can go to get well, whether it's Robbie Williams or Robert Smith down the road. Not Robert Smith of The Cure. I'm not suggesting he goes there. Or needs to. Your album Rudebox is getting quite a divisive reaction. It's caused quite a brouhaha in England. They're saying it's had bad reviews, but I've had great reviews from places I've never had a decent review for any album. Others have slagged me off from day one. They haven't changed. One has to think with England, do I ply my trade elsewhere or batter the door down and prove everybody wrong again? You seem less eager to please the masses on this album. There's no big usual Robbie anthems. I'm still eager. If you don't want to please people, keep it to yourself. The reason I'm here and doing what I'm doing is because people enjoy what I do. People say, "Did you become famous because of a lack of love?" No, I got a feeling from early on that what I did I was good at and I wanted to excel in it. The same if I was a mathematician. If I was good at it I'd figure more sums out. Are you bothered by people still questioning your songwriting input? I read, "Robbie needs songwriters, he doesn't write songs". Maybe I couldn't actually build the house, but I can do the interior. Or vice versa. Either which way I'm a songwriter and that's what I do. Is it true you were offered to be on Take That's comeback album? Um... I think there was an offer there, but they completely understood from my side where I was at and what I was doing. Being on the tour I was on, there simply wasn't time. Is it strange watching Take That back on tour and in the charts? It's a weird predicament to be in. I genuinely feel for those lads, I want the album and the single to be a massive success, and subsequent tours and albums, if they deem fit to do them. I really want it to work for them, but I also don't want to do it. I've made my peace with it all. It's not like watching Take That. It's like watching another band. The '90s on Rudebox is your umpteenth song about Take That. Is that it now? I've exorcised the demons. I can't go on about it any more, unless I write a song about how at peace I am with the whole Take That thing. Good Doctor details how you've swapped illegal drugs for prescription medication. For how long have you been sober? Six years on December the something or other. You're never out of the woods with that stuff. I still have an addictive nature regarding everything, whether it's the Xbox or prescriptive medication or drugs. Pandora's box is always ready to be opened again. It's not that I'm not thrilled about not having a drink for six years, but it's like, "OK, that's happening in a bit - this is today". You've said the anti-depressants you take make you fat... Yeah. It depends what kind of body type you are. It gets on my t*ts. Half of my job - more than half of it - is to look good. If you don't feel like you look good, your job's difficult, especially when your job is mainly being on stage for the world to see - and being criticised. You wrote a song about Noel and Liam Gallagher of Oasis that recently got leaked to the media. I did a song in 2000 when we were all slagging each other off as a joke one afternoon. We had a laugh, but it's a s--- song and it's embarrassing. That's why nobody's ever heard it. I found the CD in my flat and uploaded it to my computer. Three weeks later the story came out. I seem to be the only person who has a copy of it, so someone's either been in my flat or in my computer. That's scary. You sent an apology. Yeah, just to let them know it wasn't any wrongdoing from my side. It didn't need to be out there. Whatever they choose to do with that information is up to them. Please let this rumour be true - you've never had sex in your house in LA because it would "contaminate" it. I did say that. I have had sex in my LA house, but going on tour is not like real life at all. That's why it's dangerous. You're in a set of extreme circumstances that makes one act and behave in a way you normally wouldn't. I don't really have sex in LA. I'm quite happy pottering about in my house and going to bed by myself. But on tour, when you've got 90,000 people screaming at you and you're pretending you think you're sexy on stage and they're believing it - I want to sleep with them. Another rumour says you're sick of sleeping with non-famous people who sell their stories... I've slept with quite a few people and an extremely small percentage of those people were famous. But a few did become famous after. Rudebox (EMI) out now. Robbie Williams, Telstra Dome, Sun-Mon, $99.95 to $149.95 Ticketmaster.
December 14, 200618 yr Author Not sure if this is an extract from the earlier interview or a new one. :unsure: Thought I'd post it anyway.
