If we could be heroes, if just for one day.

My mother was a housewife. Both from - well, my father was from a farming family, agricultural family in the north of England. And my mother came from a very working class.

I'm gay and always have been, even when I was David Jones.

I've made over 25 studio albums, and I think probably I've made two real stinkers in my time, and some not-bad albums, and some really good albums. I'm proud of what I've done. In fact it's been a good ride.

I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody.

Some people are marching together and some on their own. Others are running, the smaller ones crawl. But some sit in silence.

When I was 9 years old, I wanted to be the baritone sax player in the Little Richard band.