Songs don't just come out of the air. They take time, but its good fun, too. Maurice gave me encouragement.

I have been to hell and back. I had a very, very bad nervous breakdown.

I wasn't eating. I wasn't sleeping. All I was doing was cocaine. I stayed awake for about two weeks, locked in my bedroom. I went down from a 142 pounds to 110 pounds.

In 1973 we moved to the British Isle of Man, and I put my first band together for one year, named Melody Fair.

I'll have to get people to write songs for me right now until my own writing comes around.

There is nothing to compare with the instantaneous feedback a singer gets from the people sitting in front of him. That is where it all comes together - all the rehearsing and working to get everything just exactly right.

I definitely have a sexual ego thing. But if I'm suggestive, it's in a nice way. Luckily, no one's ever been hurt...a few girls have passed out, that's all.