"You just never know in this business, it’s a very unsecure place," he says. "It’s good to sometimes take control yourself and say, ’It’s not going to happen, and here’s why’. Sometimes the reasons aren’t good enough for the label to agree with you, so you have to make some up." Among the singers Calvin recently had the pleasure of working with are ex-Moloko frontwoman Roisin Murphy and Antipodean pop pixie Kylie.

Being "the most socially awkward person I know", however, the collaboration with Kylie wasn’t quite what Calvin expected. So just how does one go about addressing the pocket- sized singer?

"I just talked to her like I’d talk to anybody else – I tried not to offend her, but I tended to keep myself to myself. There’s almost always another writer in the room with me. During a lot of the sessions I did with Kylie, I said very, very little and just nodded when I thought it was a good time to nod, or went to the toilet when I needed to and that was it.

"Although I had lots of ideas, I found it hard to articulate them and didn’t like to ask if she’d mind trying them out.

"That was one of my first writing sessions, so it wasn’t great. I didn’t really know what to do. What do you do when you’re in a room with Kylie? She says ’Shall I do this?’ and I’d panic and say ’I don’t know, ask him’, pointing to the other writer.

"I ramble as well," he says, well aware he’s now rambling about this subject, too. "I remember on occasion seeing Kylie Minogue’s eyes glaze over when I was talking to her. And that image fills me with regret."

- CALVIN HARRIS’S album, Ready For The Weekend, is out now. He plays Creamfields at Daresbury, on Sunday, August 30.