What are your plans after Eurovision?
To become a D list celebrity! I am the most popular TV reality show winner to date - in terms of the percentages that I won by. Because whole families voted for me - which is why families from Latvia, Poland and Russia will vote for me. I'm not offensive, I'm just a working class hero from the streets and I'm doing a song which everyone can get because everyone's been to school.
If you do this competition to try and get a career out of it then it jumps up and bites you. I'm not. Obviously if I won my profile would be raised, but first and foremost I'm on a mission to win Eurovision. And if I don't I'll be incredibly disappointed.
What's been your proudest moment?
Seriously, the minute when those votes came in on Making Your Mind Up. Do you know how bizarre it is for a working class guy like me to sit on a couch with Anthony Costa, Johnathan Ross and Kelly Osbourne and see my name at the top there. The only thing that can top that is winning Eurovision.
Have you imagined the moment when you might be collecting the trophy?
Of course I have! But when it actually happens I'll probably be on about my 4th or 5th bottle of wine and there may be some controversy!
I've been warmed by the sense of Eurovision fever. Cos people either love my song, love me, or hate my song and hate me. And that can only be a good thing for future contestants because the public's imagination has been drawn to Eurovision again when before it was dwindling away.
If my enthusiasm attracts people here then it'll attract people all across Europe.
What sort of promotion are you doing in the next 3 weeks?
When I won I said I was going to get to every country but to get to 38 is impossible so we've had to try and pick which ones are going to be the best to go to. I think Cyprus is important - to get that Greece/Cyprus thing sorted.
Won't that be impossible?
It's not impossible - I bet no-ones been over there and said "Oi! What are you doing here?" And they might just embrace it. Then again they might just go "p*** off, who are you?" We've got to take that chance haven't we?
Other countries take Eurovision more seriously than we do and some entrants have government support - how can we compete with that?
7 million voted for the Swedish entry and there's only 16 million in the country. It means so much to people and I think I need to go over there and say it means just as much to us. We don't like to admit it but we all watch it. And this year there'll be record figures watching because I'm there - and they think something interesting is going to happen. I'm either going to fall flat on my face or it's going to be a rousing performance and the stadium is going to erupt!
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What are your plans after Eurovision?
I've been warmed by the sense of Eurovision fever. Cos people either love my song, love me, or hate my song and hate me. And that can only be a good thing for future contestants because the public's imagination has been drawn to Eurovision again when before it was dwindling away.
Do you think Daz can win?
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