Jarvis Cocker has admitted raiding the stage during Michael Jackson's BRIT Awards performance "f***** up" his life

He told The Sunday Times' Culture magazine: "For years our impetus for doing things was never success because we never sold any records.

"Then we did sell records, so the label wanted us to get on with the next one, but becoming well known had such an effect on my life that I needed time to take it in. Should have put my foot down and had a break. I didn't, and things fell apart.

"Ever since I was a little kid I wanted to be in a band and be famous.

"But after the Michael Jackson thing I entered a celebrity world where everyone just knew me, whether I made music or not. I thought, is it even worth being in a band, given that it's f***ed my life up?"

Jarvis eventually moved to Paris with then-wife Camille Bidault-Waddington, and retreated out of the spotlight to raise their son Albert, 22,.

And the Common People hitmaker enjoyed being able to walk around the city without attracting attention

He said: "That was quite a good thing actually.

"It was good to be somewhere where nobody recognised me. I remember being on the Metro, seeing posters for a concert of someone I had never heard of playing the Stade de France, and realising, there is no meaning to celebrity, really. It's just a poster. That's when I started relaxing about it."

Meanwhile, Jarvis admitted his relationship with the songs from Different Class "changes" all the time and he thinks there's a case to "pension off" one of the group's biggest singles, Disco 2000.

He said: "For years I couldn't play Mis-Shapes because it was a call to arms for a revolution that never came. Maybe there will be one now.

"Why did I write a song called Help the Aged at 34?

"Disco 2000 was written five years before the year 2000 and now it's 25 years after. We should probably pension it off, but what can I say? It works in concert. They all do."