Teachers need to be more inspirational. But it's also up to engineering to make itself more interesting.

My son is in a band, and he’s a singer, and his vocals … they’re screaming-growling stuff … and he’s got a pretty reasonable voice. Yet he practices really hard to get the screaming-growling thing without losing that voice every five minutes. So I’m, like, “Hats off to you.”

Life on the road can get a little one-dimensional. I didn't want to reach 40 and have to say all I'd done was look out the window of a tour bus and get drunk.

I think the best way to find out about something is to try to do it to the max. A lot of people take up a hobby or sport and then find an excuse not to carry on with it. Once I start something, I won't stop until I'm as good at it as I'll ever be.

Anybody auditions for X-Factor it's because they want to be famous, not because they are artists.

Nothing lasts forever but the certainty of change

Teachers need to be more inspirational. But it's also up to engineering to make itself more interesting.