Despite hanging out with the likes of Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan on occasion, James Blunt has said he doesn’t understand why people want to constantly be in the limelight.

He told the Sun recently: “I don’t understand celebrities who want to draw attention to themselves. It’s a kind of weird addiction.”

“I never went out to get noticed. I really set out to be a musician and the rest of it just came along by mistake.”

“There’s a song on my new album ‘One Of The Brightest Stars’ which is about dealing with all that. It’s like I am an observer, I’m seeing it all and experiencing it for its good bits and all the rest. And yeah, of course, there are some benefits along the way.”

But he admits there are definite advantages to being famous: “I’ve definitely met lots of people - both male and female - and yeah I’ve met more women in these last three-and-a-half years than I’ve met in my entire life.”

After finishing with supermodel Petra Nemcova in March, James is now seeing a holistic therapist called Mika Simmons but admits: “I still have trouble cementing down a relationship.”