Regrets and Mistakes, they're Memories made

I've always written down how I feel.

I've been singing properly every day since I was about fifteen or sixteen, and I have never had any problems with my voice, ever. I've had a sore throat here and there, had a cold and sung through it, but that day it just went while I was onstage in Paris during a radio show. It was literally like someone had pulled a curtain over it.

I like having my hair and face done, but I'm not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy.

People are starting to go on about my weight but I'm not going to change my size because they don't like the way I look.

I don't care if you're black, white, short, tall, skinny, rich or poor. If you respect me I'll respect you

Americans are always mortified when I tell them this, but in England, it's a tradition to put your plaques and photographs and awards and gold records and stuff in your bathroom. I don't know why.