Robbie Williams wants to set up 'creative university'
Robbie Williams wants to set up a "creative university".
The 'Angels' singer - who was just 16 years old when he joined Take That - thinks he has "completed music" and is now keen to teach young artists and performers the skills they need off stage in order to be successful and in control of their own careers.
He told the Sunday Times newspaper he would students to learn "everything that I should have known when I signed a contract the first time I signed a contract in Take That."
He added: 'I mean, I kind of completed music. I love it and I'll be writing songs and everything, but I think I want to teach people how to be managers, agents. I want to teach them how to do their own merchandise. I want to teach them how to be front-of-house. I want to teach them how to talk to people, how to behave in the room.'
The 51-year-old star - who has children Teddy, 12, Charlie, 10, Coco, six, and five-year-old Beau with wife Ayda Field - often feels awkward around other people, even some of his closest friends.
He said: 'There is a definite concentration level that is beyond where I'm comfortable when I'm anywhere other than with my wife, the kids or my very, very, very good friends.
"And even still with some of my very, very, very good friends, when I'm a feeling a particular way, I might feel uncomfortable around them too.'
Robbie has just opened his latest art exhibition, 'Radical Honesty', and he is planning to sell the works for a hefty sum.
He said: 'We haven't commercialised them yet, but I'm f****** gonna. I think that what you do with the big ones, you know, the ones that stand alone, they won't be priced accessibly. They will be accessible to rich people.'
The 'Let Me Entertain You' hitmaker creates his works on an iPad in just 25 minutes and has no interest in further honing his skills with formal training.
He said: 'I haven't got the time and I haven't got the inclination. I have too many ideas … I have the idea for the speech [the text on each art work], I knock up the thing behind it, the thing that takes 20 minutes, 25 minutes to draw, boom, I move on to the next one.'
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