I wrote this song title in mind, "Reality Killed the Reality Star." I'm not sure if I stole it from a newspaper headline or maybe it came off the top of my head. It's a steal really. I wrote this song about my first love that I was trying to re-kindle when we were 16 and then tried to re-kindle at 30 but it fell on its ass for whatever reasons. And then I lost the tune but kept the title in my head. I was going to call it "El Protagonist," the protagonist in one of those Spaghetti Westerns – the man who comes into town to clear up the bad guys but you are not sure if he's a bad guy himself. The management said it sounded "pretentious" and it was quite a mouthful, so we got rid of that and stuck with "Reality Killed the Video Star."

Well, it could have all gone west. I don't know if people have got their ears on for me. I'm knocking at their doors going, "Do you want some of this again or not? I'm alright if you don't, I'd like it if you did." I think the next couple of months will define the rest of my life, where this is headed.

I don't really know to be honest, but I'll like for people who are buying it and taking it home to go, "Yep." Just a general sense of "He's back in form," and that will be good enough for me. I talked to my Missus about it and she said, "Babe, it doesn't matter, either way. If it goes well, it goes well. If it goes bad, it goes bad." And I go, "Yeah, that's right," but 5 minutes later, I'll go "Ugh, what about my album?" [laughs] So it's a bit like that at the moment.

See, the song itself is a big conspiracy-laden song. It's where my head had been in the last 3 years on the Internet watching films like Zeitgeist, and The God Who Wasn't There and Loose Change and 911 was an inside job & all this business. And the video that I could have possibly made for the first single, they'd have gone yeah, he has definitely gone mental. So what do you reckon we should do? Let's do an aftershave advert & I'm like, "Cool!" I didn't want to scare anybody with the inside of my head.

To be Robbie Williams, it takes a big pinch of neuroses, a liking for music, a troubled childhood, being too famous too young, and singing a bit and dancing…oh and this is just something I pulled out of the air, see?

For this album, I want you to sit back, forget who you are for a little while, put the headphones on or be in the car and lose yourself. And enjoy it as much as I've enjoyed making it.