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"Described as a &amp;quot;singing fly&amp;quot; by Simon Cowell and told to ditch &amp;quot;the craziness&amp;quot; by Cheryl Cole, Storm Lee was always struggling this week. The 37-year-old Scot&amp;#039;s show-opener &amp;#039;Born To Run&amp;#039; failed to impress viewers and he found himself bottom of the pile on last night&amp;#039;s results show. We caught up with Storm this morning to find out if he has any regrets and got him to dish the dirt on his mentor Louis Walsh. How are you feeling this morning? &amp;quot;I feel actually quite relieved. I felt the further I went in the show, I wasn&amp;#039;t able to be me. That&amp;#039;s not to take away anything, I just felt that I wasn&amp;#039;t the type of artist that could go very far on that show. I was relieved to go out, so that I can go on and do something cool.&amp;quot; Do you think &amp;#039;Born To Run&amp;#039; and &amp;#039;We Built This City&amp;#039; were bad song choices looking back? &amp;quot;I definitely wish I could have gone and done artists that represented the sort of music that I want to do. Not this sort of old-fashioned rock &amp;#039;n&amp;#039; roll. I wanted to do stuff like The Killers. And people like Arcade Fire - stuff like that. But it&amp;#039;s all good. I definitely think that the productions were put on me because I was that guy on the show. I was the &amp;#039;rock theatre guy&amp;#039;. When actually I am all about more minimal stuff. It was definitely a push-and-pull for me. But at the end of it all, I was just relieved to have got that far in the competition.&amp;quot; The voice we heard at your auditions and Judges&amp;#039; Houses didn&amp;#039;t come through on &amp;#039;Born To Run&amp;#039; this week. Were you annoyed that we didn&amp;#039;t get to hear more of you just singing with less production? &amp;quot;I really felt that next week, what was coming up for me, would have been just like that. I was planning to strip it all back. I wanted to do something really soulful, clean and minimal. I wanted to show my versatility throughout the show. But I took a risk and trusted my mentor and I think there may have been some mistakes made in the production and styling.&amp;quot;  Do you think that you took too many risks with your performances? &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m happy to be the guy who put it out there and took risks. The problem was that while other people were praised for taking risks, they didn&amp;#039;t seem to get me. And that is fine. If they can&amp;#039;t see through the make-up and the styling, I&amp;#039;m cool with that.&amp;quot; Simon never really got off your back at any time during the competition. Do you think that hindered your chances of ever making a real impression on the competition? &amp;quot;Yeah, definitely. It felt every time that I got up to sing that I was on the defensive. I don&amp;#039;t think my personality was really coming through because of that. When you get to know me, you&amp;#039;ll realise that I have a sense of humour to everything that I do. I was trying to be a bit of tongue-in-cheek with everything, but they always seemed to see me as very serious and very harsh performer that had failed in his career. When to be honest, I feel like quite a successful performer because I have made a living out of being an artist for quite a long time. I know how hard it is. Simon definitely could have been more positive and that would have helped me. But then again, they want the youths, they want the more generic artists on the show... so good for them.&amp;quot; You said that you won&amp;#039;t be giving up on your music career. What would you like to do next? &amp;quot;I would be up for anything. If Brian May called me up for Queen and said that they had a gig coming up, I would be up for trying out for that. But I&amp;#039;d also love to get to work on a little album of my own songs and really showing people what I have inside.&amp;quot; Did we get to see the real Storm at any point on The X Factor? I never really felt like I understood what you were about or wanted to achieve as an artist... &amp;quot;People definitely haven&amp;#039;t seen the best of me. In fact, I think the show has brought out some of the worst sides of me. The future can only get better. In the future I will be in control of my artistic presentation and things like that. Until now I have been at the whim of Louis Walsh, who to be honest, is a bit out of touch. It&amp;#039;s really difficult when you are working with someone like that to be exciting, relevant and modern. You are pushing up against a mountain.&amp;quot; The X Factor continues next Saturday at 7.30pm on ITV1 "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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