I always just wanted to be the singer or the bass player in the band. I'd love to have a band, where I was obviously the singer, but where it wasn't me, it wasn't my name.

Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs.

When your world has shattered, ain't nothing else matters. It ain't over, it's only love and that's all.

I'd been round the world a hundred times and had started to forget where I'd been. I knew I'd been there: it said it on the tour map. I could remember the name of the city but I couldn't remember what it was like - it was a massive blur.

I watch everybody every night, from sitting down to being on their feet at the end, and I feel a sense of reinvention, of caring, presenting these songs in their purest form.

She says that her love for me would never die, but that would change if she found out about you and I.

There is little sense in attempting to change external conditions, you must first change inner beliefs, then outer conditions will change accordingly.