Will Young has admitted he is afraid of criticism and being a flop.

The singer says he does not want to hear bad comments about him, never reads reviews and is scared of failure.

After an interviewer offered to put some views of his career to him, he replied: "I don't want bad comments. I am not interested in any nasty ones."

Apparently he is still upset by criticism. “I mean, someone can say you are this, and I can now say, 'Well, thanks for your opinion, but, you know, I don't really care about your opinion...' But you still have to bat it off,” he explained. “I don't read anything. I don't think it's helpful. If there is real criticism it will come through the people I work with, and then I'll deal with it."

He added that he was only so sensitive because he puts himself into his music – and because he worries about failing. He commented: "If I was manufactured, I wouldn't care, because it wouldn't have me in it. If I didn't care, I wouldn't worry."

“Sometimes I feel very vulnerable,” continued the star. “I see people every day, people who are just hot, hot, hot, and you can't get enough of them. And then it goes like a brick. I have been in the Best Male category three times at the Brit awards, but people have changed through that and you think, 'Well, where is he now?' You can disappear very quickly."