You're Pitiful

James Blunt has admitted he finds it much easier to voice his emotions through song than face to face.

Blunt has come to terms with the fact that he might be rather emotionally stunted around the fairer sex - caused by a combination of his Child Catcher face, his creepy falsetto voice and a puberty spent surrounded by boys at a private school full of equally irritating posh twats.

"As emotional upbringings go, being sent away to boarding school at seven is as great an inspiration as any songwriter could have," the singer whinged. "To be taken away from one's family and locked away for ten years - it does create an incredible intensity of emotion."

That's one way of dealing with it. If I were made to toast crumpets in the nude and then suffer the indignity of a jolly good thrashing, I wouldn't be writing ballads, I'd be practicing my aim with a crossbow. But then that probably wouldn't get me shagging my way around legions of supermodels, would it?