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.

Everything we look at and choose is some way of expressing how we want to be perceived.

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

Comfort comes into your house first as guest, then as a host, then finally as the master.

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

When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire.

You can begin really looking for a relationship . . . when you can (appreciate) the whole concept of giving to someone, not just taking.