I ran into him at a hotel once on Venice Beach. Thinking that he looked so familiar that I must know him from somewhere (personally) I grabbed his arm and said “Hey! What’re you doing out here in SoCal?!?”

He shook me off and wandered away, talking into his cell phone. I heard him speaking and thought, “British? I don’t know any brits ‘cept for a few and he ain’t onna them…”

My friends who were watching this and laughing then explained to me who he was and why I knew him. Heh.

I hope he changes the Pop Music world though, good on him.