I've got wealth and fame but I haven't changed my roots.

I'm busy and that's the way I like it - when I have too much downtime I get into trouble.

I have a stepladder. It's a very nice stepladder but it's sad that I never knew my real ladder.

British fans are exceptional, but the American fans are something else. Some of them fly 500 miles to stand in line for three hours, just to meet me, then when they do they collapse.

It's evolve or die, really, you have to evolve, you have to move on otherwise it just becomes stagnant.

We were the only black family in an estate with 1,000 white families. Liverpool being quite racist in the Sixties, it was a bit grim growing up.

It's not supposed to be easy, if it's easy, it's no good, that's the way I look at it.