United Kingdom, Dec. 14 -- Jarvis Cocker has admitted raiding the stage during Michael Jackson's BRIT Awards performance "f***** up" his life.

The 62-year-old singer saw his band Pulp's profile skyrocket with the release of their 1995 album Different Class, and although he had always wanted to be famous, he realised just months later that it wasn't necessarily a good thing in the wake of the 1996 drunken incident.

He told The Sunday Times' Culture magazine: "For years our impetus for doing things was never success because we never sold any records.

"Then we did sell records, so the label wanted us to get on with the next one, but becoming well known had such an effect on my life that I needed time to take it in. Should have put my foot...