Portrait of the artist: Brett Anderson, musician

'Rock's not all carnal glamour. You spend a lot of time sitting around backstage, fiddling with bits of cheese'What got you started?Being brought up in a very unusual way. My mother was an artist and my father an obsessive classical music fan. We were very poor: if you wanted something – clothes, art for the walls, ­furniture – you made it yourself. So when I started ­becoming interested in music, and couldn't hear the music I really wanted to hear, I tried to make it myself....

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