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Mike Skinner says promoting his new album has been depressing because its all about his problems.
The Streets' recent The Hardest Way to Make An Easy Living, true to Skinner's real-life-story style, talks honestly about his weaknesses and the issues he has faced with growing fame.
One unexpected result of that honesty, says the singer, has been to make press interviews about the records' content very hard on him psychologically.
"It's been difficult," he admitted to Stuff.co.nz "I've felt quite foolish at times. It's been a difficult album to promote because I've essentially just been talking about all my problems.
"I'm essentially having to have – I don't know whether you'd call it counselling, but I've been talking about my problems 10 times a day to people that I don't know. But I know it's my own fault."
The star says he's sticking by his openness policy, however, and is managing to hold on. "I stay honest, and that seems to do me all right," he explained. "Putting yourself on the line actually makes people react to you better."
