He said that he did not feel more vulnerable when performing music compared to acting.<\/p>\n
“They’re two very different things. When you’re acting you need to go down a rabbit hole, a separate, alternative reality, a parallel world,” he said.<\/p>\n
“You need to sublimate yourself to the journey, to the script and the story. You’re an interpreter.”<\/p>\n
But he said that writing and performing his own songs made him “author and also interpreter”.<\/p>\n
“It’s a different kind of psychological journey that you take,” he added.<\/p>\n
“It’s not immersive in the sense that you become something else.”<\/p>\n
Of his television career, Lewis said that he had been “very lucky” and “completely unwittingly” at the vanguard of a shift in TV, in shows which enjoyed global success.<\/p>\n
“I’ve been very fortunate and I’ve loved doing all of them,” he added.<\/p>\n
His tour in the autumn includes performances in Edinburgh, Glasgow, London and Brighton, where he played a set on 10 June at record shop Resident.<\/p>\n
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