I like to write songs about what's happening, what I see around me and what I hear. Everyday life. Someone may be talking to me and I may take it from that.

So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor.

Things will get better if you just hold out long enough.

Sometimes I'd hear things on other people's records and I say I wanted it on my records, but Leslie Kong said, no, it wasn't right and that it wasn't my style.

And I was really saying that no matter how bad things are there is always a calm after a storm, so don't give up on things.

I like to write songs about what's happening, what I see around me and what I hear. Everyday life. Someone may be talking to me and I may take it from that.

Then my mother was taken ill and died and my father took me to St. Mary's.