I just put drugs down to luck. I persevere quite honestly, and I've got a fair amount of discipline that keeps me out of deep water.

Church on time, makes me party.

I went to a middle-class school, but my background is working class. I got the best of both worlds, I saw both classes, so I have a pretty fair idea of how people live and why they do it.

With "Let's Dance," there was actually a chance that I was actually going to be able to keep the money I had made.

Elvis is English, and climbs the hills. Can't tell the bullshit from the lies.

Songwriting as an art is a bit archaic now. Just writing a song is not good enough.

I went mainstream in a major way with the song "Let's Dance." And what I found I had done was put a box around myself. It was very hard for people to see me as anything other than the person in the suit who did "Let's Dance," and it was driving me mad - because it took all my passion for experimenting away.