If you’re an alcoholic or a drug addict, we flirt with death. We pull ourselves to the brink of destruction and if we’re lucky we pull ourselves back. We all have that in us.

I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it.

My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.

I was bullied as a boy - lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up.

My life is not my own business.

I don't have many friends; I'm very much a loner. As a child I was very isolated and I've never been really close to anyone.

I wanted to be a musician. I just wanted to be famous because I wanted to escape from what I felt was my limitation in life... And I wanted to write music, and I didn’t know what I was doing and I never had the technique or understanding of it... But I’ve always played the piano and I can improvise on the piano, but the problem is that I can’t write down what I write. I can read music but I can’t write numbers.