I bought singles until I started working properly and then I started buying albums, so this brings back a lot of teenage memories from being in London before I got work

And you realise you're doing a public service in making people happy - as a musician you can give people something a doctor, a lawyer, a politician cannot give them that. It's not scientific. It's spiritual - a good feeling. And although you don't know them personally, the audience are like your friends.

Success can create more madness than happiness.

When you're older and wiser a lot of the ego has gone out of the window.

My first instrument was a little blue ukele.

I bought singles until I started working properly and then I started buying albums, so this brings back a lot of teenage memories from being in London before I got work

Suddenly life has new meaning to me, there's beauty up above and things we never take notice of, you wake up suddenly you're in love.